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
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