Hello,

It is difficult searching for previous posts about this since the keywords are 
short and ambiguous, so I hope this is not a duplicate question.

I can easily declare an array on the command line.

$ names=(X Y)
$ echo ${names[0]}
X

I am unable to do the same from within R.

> system("names=(X Y)")
sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

Reading the documentation for the system function, it appears to only be 
relevant for executing commands. What can I do instead to declare a BASH array 
? Thanks.

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Dario Strbenac
PhD Student
University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia

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