No, that was your answer, not a request for clarification. Type ?system at an R prompt and read the help file.
Sarah On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Julio Sergio <julioser...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> >> ?system >> >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Julio Sergio <juliosergio <at> gmail.com> > wrote: >> > Is there any way to issue operating system commands and geting back the > results, >> > in R? >> > >> > I mean, for instance, in Linux, to execute from R the 'ls' command and > getting >> > back a list of files in the current directory, or, equivalently, in > Windows/DOS, >> > the 'dir' command? >> > >> > I'm not interested in the 'ls' or 'dir' commands it is just an example. >> > >> > Do you have any comments on this matter? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > --Sergio. >> > >> > > Basically, I'm interested on Linux and Windows/DOS (Windows 7) > -- 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.
