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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Feb 13, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Carl Witthoft wrote:

> 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.
>

[Please CC me, I'm not subscripted to R-help,] but that's why I have  
defined as a generic so anyone can use it and define methods for it ...

Cheers,
S


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> Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:47 PM, Carl Witthoft wrote:
>>> 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:
>>>
>>> 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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