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

[Bob Rudis]

Issue an applescript event to Excel to tell it to close the file. You
can do that from the system command, but it's really not R-related
(it's more about how to issue apple events from the command line).

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Christofer Bogaso
<bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>> On Nov 2, 2016, at 10:02 AM, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> system(paste("open", shQuote(filename)),wait=FALSE)
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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