Yes, not cygwin\bin but Rtools\bin (which is in my path:)
> Sys.which("date")
date
"Z:\\R\\Rtools\\bin\\date.exe"
The OP's error message (Error in system("date", intern = TRUE) : 'date' not
found) suggests he has no 'date' in his path.
I see ?system says "DOS internal commands, ... cannot be used: see shell",
so you and others are correct in recommending 'shell' rather than 'system'.
Sorry for the noise :-(
At least I've learned something :-)
Best regards,
KJ
"William Dunlap" <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote in message
news:e66794e69cfde04d9a70842786030b93283...@pa-mbx04.na.tibco.com...
> You wrote:
> > Works for me:
> >> e <- system("date", intern=TRUE)
> >> e
> >[1] "Wed Mar 7 08:58:32 GMTST 2012"
> I suspect you have cygwin\bin in your PATH variable,
> as that does not look like Windows date command:
> > system("cmd.exe /c date /T")
> Wed 03/07/2012
> > shell("date /T")
> Wed 03/07/2012
> > shell("date") # asks for new date if no /T
> The current date is: Wed 03/07/2012
> Enter the new date: (mm-dd-yy) Warning messages:
> 1: running command 'C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c date' had status 1
> 2: In shell("date") : 'date' execution failed with error code 1
>
> sessionInfo() does not report PATH's contents. You can
> look at it with
> strsplit(Sys.getenv("PATH"), .Platform$path.sep)[[1]]
>
> Bill Dunlap
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org]
>> On
>> Behalf Of Keith Jewell
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 1:02 AM
>> To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: Re: [R] how to run system command
>>
>> Works for me:
>> --------------------------
>> > sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United
>> Kingdom.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United
>> Kingdom.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] grDevices datasets splines graphics stats tcltk utils
>> tools methods base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] CBRIutils_1.0 stringr_0.5 svSocket_0.9-51 TinnR_1.0.3
>> R2HTML_2.2 Hmisc_3.8-3 survival_2.36-10
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] cluster_1.14.1 grid_2.14.1 lattice_0.20-0 plyr_1.7.1
>> svMisc_0.9-63
>> > e <- system("date", intern=TRUE)
>> > e
>> [1] "Wed Mar 7 08:58:32 GMTST 2012"
>> ----------------
>>
>> What's your sessionInfo()?
>>
>> KJ
>>
>>
>> "sagarnikam123" <sagarnikam...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1331041713089-4449906.p...@n4.nabble.com...
>> >i used it on windows system, but giving error like
>> >
>> >> e <- system("date", intern=TRUE)
>> > Error in system("date", intern = TRUE) : 'date' not found
>> >
>> > --
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>> tp4449597p4449
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