[R] how to run system command

[R. Michael Weylandt]

Those are error messages from the shell, not "real values" for what
you think you are doing. Are you looking for the getwd() and
Sys.date() functions instead?

Michael

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:56 AM, sagarnikam123 <sagarnikam123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> i run like ,but it giving other than what i expect
> i also want to capture output & print it
>
>> e<-system("date")
>> e
> [1] 127
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> e<-system("dir")
>> e
> [1] 127
>
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