[R] single quotes and double quotes in a system() command. What to do?

[Matthew Keller]

Hi all,

I would like to run the following from within R:

awk '{$3=$4="";gsub("  ","");print}' myfile > outfile

However, this obviously won't work:
system("awk '{$3=$4="";gsub("  ","");print}' myfile > outfile")

and this won't either:
system("awk '{$3=$4='';gsub('  ','');print}' myfile > outfile")


Can anyone help me out? I'm sure there's an obvious solution. Thanks,

Matt


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