[R-SIG-Mac] R code to open and close a file in Mac

[Christofer Bogaso]

Thanks, working perfectly. Any idea on forcibly closing that same file
through R.

Thanks again.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
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>> On Nov 2, 2016, at 10:02 AM, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if there is any R way to open/close (forcibly) any
>> file (preferably Excel) within Mac. I have tried with system()
>> function, however it generates error saying ".. No such file or
>> directory" since I have <<space>> in the underlying folder name.
>>
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> system(paste("open", shQuote(filename)),wait=FALSE)
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>> Can anyone here please help me with some workaround particularly on
>> how to handle Space in file/folder name.
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
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