OH! The joy!
It worked like a sharm.
Thank you.
culpritNr1
baptiste auguie-2 wrote:
>
>
> try
> ?paste
>
>
> baptiste
>
> On 10 Mar 2009, at 20:01, ig2ar-s...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi again R-ists,
>>
>> How do you construct a string that you can pass to system()?
>>
>> For instance. Say I do
>>
>>> system("echo Hello!")
>> Hello!
>>
>> That works. Now the alternative: I need to construct the string like
>> this
>>
>>> a <- "echo"
>>> b <- "Hello!"
>>> c <- "\n"
>>> cat(a, b, c)
>> echo Hello!
>>
>> Looks nice... but see what happens when I try to use it
>>
>>> system(cat(a, b, c))
>> echo Hello!
>> Error in system(command, intern) : non-empty character argument
>> expected
>>
>> I have googled extensively in and out of r-lists but I can't find a
>> solution.
>>
>> Can anybody help?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ______________________________________________
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>
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>
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>
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