[R] Shell command help

[Uwe Ligges]

On 03.06.2010 04:19, galen kaufman wrote:
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> Uwe,
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> Thank you so much for the response. I tried running the command in the format you suggested but still could not get the shell command to execute. The following is the command that I used per your suggestion and the subsequent error message.
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> shell('"C:\\programx.exe"' -import '"C:\\inputx.inp"' -run -quit)


This cannot work. Is this all expected to be the first argument of 
shell()? If so, you need to quote it as a whole.


> #Error that is returned from above code…..
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>> 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or>batch file

Since the above command cannot work, this error message is the resukt 
from another call you have not given.
Particularly the "c:\Program" points us to a problem with spaces in the 
directory "Program Files" but since you have not used that in your call 
from R, it must be something in C:\programx.exe or C:\inputx.inp that 
causes the problem, but it is not R related - unless you have used a 
completely different call.


>> Warning message:
>> In shell("\"C:\\programx.exe\" -import>\"C:\\input.inp\" -run -quit") :
>   >'"C:\programx.exe" -import "C:\input.inp" -run -quit' execution failed with error code 1


These two lines are also from two different calls. I don't see the ">" 
from the first line is in the second line now....

So, *please* copy and paste only code and error messages that fit to 
each other!

Uwe Ligges



> Thinking that it may be a problem with the command line I checked with developer of the program and he said that it should be the correct language.
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> Any thoughts?
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> Thank you again,
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> Galen
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>> Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 09:19:49 +0200
>> From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
>> To: leavealetter1 at hotmail.com
>> CC: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] Shell command help
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>> On 02.05.2010 21:55, galen kaufman wrote:
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>>> Dear R Community,
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>>> I am trying to run a command line in R that will open an external program, have it import a specific input file, run the program, then close the program. The command line that I got from the developer of the model to do this looks like what you see below:
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>>> c:\programx.exe -import 'inputx.inp' -run -quit
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>>> I have been trying to use shell() or shell.exec() to run this in R. I can get R to open the program but I have not been able to do the rest of the steps.
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>>> I have been able to open the model using :
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>>>> shell('"C:\\programx.exe"')
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>>> or
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>>>> shell.exec("C:\\programx.exe")
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>>> To do the rest I have been trying variations of the following:
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>>>> shell('"C:\\programx.exe"' -import '"C:\\inputx.inp"' -run –quit)
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>> Hm, you need to pass one string to the shell (and the underlking
>> system()) call:
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>> shell('"C:\\programx.exe" -import "C:\\inputx.inp" -run –quit')
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>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges
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>>> but I am not getting anywhere.
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>>> Can you provide any insight as to how to do the rest?
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>>> Thank you,
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>>> Galen
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