To get the tech specs out of the way I am running Rstudio(R 2.13.0) on a
ubuntu box. I am trying to use information returned from the system command
within an Rscript. System() passes commands to my ubuntu prompt and returns
the normal messages.
For example.

> system("date")Thu Jun 30 21:48:20 UTC 2011

However when i try to store this return(something i need to do for my
purposes) nothing is stored(or at least not what shown on the R prompt)

> store<-system("date")Thu Jun 30 21:49:27 UTC 2011> store[1] 0

How do i capture the return of system()?

Thanks R-world,

John Dennison

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