[R-SIG-Mac]getting round the absence of system() on R for Mac

[Stefano Iacus]

system() is not implemented (yet, it would be possible in the next 
version but only running under OSX) in R.  You can try to use 
applescript to interact with other applications.
within R you can run applescript or, from an applescript you can ask R 
to execute commands. See the examples in the script directory.
As I'm trying to develop applescript support in R it would be nice if 
any of you reading the list suggest me what they would like to do in 
this direction.

Stefano


On Luned́, settembre 24, 2001, at 07:01 , Greg Jefferis wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am analysing a set of 200 files describing the 3D structure of 
> neurons.
> One of the ways I would like to analyse these 3D data points is to find 
> the
> convex hull for each neuron.  I have an external compiled C application
> which does that - at the moment it reads in a set of data stored in the 
> file
> chull.in and outputs the convex hull description to another outfile,
> chull.out
>
> I would like to write a routine in R which iterates over my 200 neurons,
> replaces chull.in with the points describing the current neuron, runs 
> chull,
> read the contents of chull.out into R and update the current neuron 
> object.
> I can do everything except call this external program - under unix one 
> would
> use system().  Any suggestions?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Greg.
>
> P.S. I am using R v 1.3.1 on MacOS 9.1
>
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