[R] Interacting with the Operating System

[Rolf Turner]

On 10/03/12 11:30, Julio Sergio 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?

?system

As ??"system commands" would have told you.

     cheers,

         Rolf Turner