[R] TR: Simulate keyboard

[Philipp Pagel]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:27:05AM +0200, Thibault Charles wrote:
> I cannot find a way to simulate a keyboard event as pressing the ?enter?
> key.
> for (i in 1:nombre_fichiers_monteCarlo){
> system(paste('"C:/Trnsys17/Exe/TRNExe.exe"',liste_dck_monteCarlo[i]),wait=TRUE)
> }
> 
> My problem is that at each step, trnsys ask the user to press ?enter? from
> the keyboard and I would like not have to press myself on ?enter?.
> 
> Does exist a function to simulate this kind of keyboard event ?

I don't think R can handle that (but I may be wrong). On a UNIX
platform, this kind of problem could be tackled with the expect
command. 

Your code above suggests you are on a Windows platform. I did a quick
google search and it seems that expect is available for windows as
part of the CYGWIN suite. And there also seems to be an expect for
windows from activestate:

http://docs.activestate.com/activetcl/8.5/expect4win/

cu
	Philipp

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Technische Universität München
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