[R] popen() ?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Fri May 14 13:01:39 CEST 2010


On 14/05/2010 6:09 AM, Oliver wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> is there a possibility to call a program (like with system())
> and read back the data it prints to stdout?
>
> On Unix/Linux there is the popen() systemcall, which does this.
>
> Is it available in R?
> Maybe via extra packages?

See ?pipe.

Duncan Murdoch



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