Please read the help for system, paying particular attention to the intern argument.
> e <- system("date", intern=TRUE) > e [1] "Tue Mar 6 08:33:48 EST 2012" Sarah On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:56 AM, sagarnikam123 <sagarnikam...@gmail.com> wrote: > i run like ,but it giving other than what i expect > i also want to capture output & print it > >> e<-system("date") >> e > [1] 127 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> e<-system("dir") >> e > [1] 127 > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.