[R] Interacting with the Operating System

[Julio Sergio]

Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> ?system
> 
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Julio Sergio <juliosergio <at> gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Is there any way to issue operating system commands and geting back the 
results,
> > in R?
> >
> > I mean, for instance, in Linux, to execute from R the 'ls' command and 
getting
> > back a list of files in the current directory, or, equivalently, in 
Windows/DOS,
> > the 'dir' command?
> >
> > I'm not interested in the 'ls' or 'dir' commands it is just an example.
> >
> > Do you have any comments on this matter?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --Sergio.
> >
> 

Basically, I'm interested on Linux and Windows/DOS (Windows 7)