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

[Stefano Iacus]

Greg,

I'll check this later but you can use the following

applescript("",":RunChullProgram")

that should work.

I also invite you and other R users to develop some examples like yours 
to distribute along with the R binaries.

Stefano

On Marted́, settembre 25, 2001, at 12:51 , Greg Jefferis wrote:

> Dear Stefano,
>
> Thanks for the response.  That will be very useful.  That seems to work
> fine.  I have one suggestion to make though.  The first thing I tried 
> was:
>
>> applescript(getwd(),"RunChullProgram")
>
> Error in applescript(path, scriptname) : Cannot find script file
>
> because I had put my script in my working directory.  However that 
> doesn't
> work because applescript() is expecting a path without a trailing 
> colon.  So
> I had to do:
>
> applescript(substring(getwd(),1,nchar(getwd())-1),"RunChullProgram")
>
> which seems a little cumbersome.  Perhaps at the next iteration, you 
> could
> change the function so that it ignores terminal colons in the path.
>
> Many thanks - and of course thank you so much for your contribution in
> maintaining the R port for Mac which I have found tremendously useful.
>
> Best,
>
> Greg.
>
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