[R-gui] Rcmdr and Calls to Other Programs

[John Fox]

Dear Iqbal,

I didn't intend that the Rcmdr be used to call programs external to R, but
you should be able to do this via system(). Of course, you'd have to take
care of calling the programs or batch files properly and writing out any
additional files that they might need for input. This really isn't an Rcmdr
issue, but a more general question of calling other programs from R.

Regards,
 John

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John Fox, Professor
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4
905-525-9140x23604
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iqbal Jamal [mailto:iqbaljamal at shaw.ca]
> Sent: February-07-08 2:49 PM
> To: John Fox
> Cc: r-sig-gui at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: RE: [R-gui] Rcmdr and Calls to Other Programs
> 
> Thanks John:
> 
> I have some compiled code (in *.exe files) that I have been running
> from
> *.bat files and I would like to run them from Rcmdr after a user
> completes
> and OK's the input data form.
> 
> At 07:47 AM 07/02/2008, John Fox wrote:
> >Dear Iqbal,
> >
> >Again, if I understand your question correctly, you could write an
> Rcmdr
> >plug-in package to provide dialog boxes that produce the commands that
> you
> >want. See my article on Rmcdr plug-ins in the last R News
> ><http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2007-3.pdf>.
> >
> >I hope this helps,
> >  John
> >
> >--------------------------------
> >John Fox, Professor
> >Department of Sociology
> >McMaster University
> >Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4
> >905-525-9140x23604
> >http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: r-sig-gui-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-sig-gui-
> > > bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Iqbal Jamal
> > > Sent: February-07-08 4:16 AM
> > > To: r-sig-gui at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > > Subject: [R-gui] Rcmdr and Calls to Other Programs
> > >
> > > Greetings All:
> > >
> > > I'm looking for a way to generate input code and then call an
> external
> > > routine
> > > from Rcmdr. An example would be calling Satscan to do spatial
> analysis.
> > >
> > > Thanks, Iqbal
> > >
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