[R] how to run system command

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:49 AM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> wrote:
>> system("cmd.exe /c date /T", intern=TRUE)
> [1] "Tue 03/06/2012 "

To avoid messing with "cmd.exe /c", you can use shell(), e.g.

> res <- shell("date /T", intern=TRUE)
> res
[1] "Tue 03/06/2012 "


>
> Bill Dunlap
> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of sagarnikam123
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 5:49 AM
>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] how to run system command
>>
>> i used it on windows system, but giving error like
>>
>> > e <- system("date", intern=TRUE)
>> Error in system("date", intern = TRUE) : 'date' not found
>>
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