Dear R experts, I hope everyone has had a happy easter break.
Recently my work included writing R function that need to call external tools. I did this using R's system function for example: system( paste( 'tool', '-input', path_to_input, '-output', path_to_output, '-other_switch', some_val ) ) I have two question about this: 1) Is there a way to implement such calls to external tools, so they become platform independent? I mean, so that these calls will work both on a *nix and a Windows system? 2) Is there a way to generate platform independent paths? So that "path/2/input.tbl" on *nix systems becomes "path\2\input.tbl" on a Windows system? Your help will be much appreciated! Kind regards! ______________________________________________ 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.
