Those are error messages from the shell, not "real values" for what you think you are doing. Are you looking for the getwd() and Sys.date() functions instead?
Michael 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 > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/how-to-run-system-command-tp4449597p4449597.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.