[R-SIG-Mac] helpful tool for playing music and/or seewave

[Carl Witthoft]

Hmmm...  yep, audio (package) looks nice.
This leads to a question of tool name collisions -- there's play() here 
and in seewave.  I'll post my query about that in the r-help list.



Simon Urbanek wrote:
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> On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:47 PM, Carl Witthoft wrote:
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>> Reading thru the docs on seewave, or maybe sound, (which seewave likes 
>> to use), I noticed that they hadn't set up a WAV player for OSX.  
>> After not having any luck with calls like
>>
>> > setWavePlayer(quicktime\ player) , I found a nice little tool, 
>> freeware:
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>> http://www.hieper.nl/html/play.html
>>
>> After installing that,
>>
>> >setWavePlayer('/applications/play')
>>
>> worked perfectly.
>>
>> Just thought someone might want to know ^_^
>>
> 
> Actually R can play (and record) audio on OS X directly without any 
> tools - see the audio package ;).
> 
> Cheers,
> S
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