[R] system()

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

Try instead

command <- paste(aa, fnm)
system(command)

And read the help page for ?paste

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas


Em 14-04-2014 20:02, Doran, Harold escreveu:
> I need to send a system command to another program from within R but have a small hangup
>
> I'm trying to do something like this
>
> system("notepad myfile.txt")
>
> But, more generally this is happening to multiple files, so I loop over thousands of files. For purposes of an example, my code is something like this, which does not work
>
> aa <- 'notepad.exe'
> fnm <- 'myfile.txt'
> system("aa fnm")
>
> Any suggestions?
> Harold
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