Hi, Consider also that you may easily modify system names from inside your R script as:
system("mv oldname newname") Best Regards, Javier ... > thoeb wrote: >> Hello, >> does anybody know about how to "send" a command or a text line from R to >> another program? I have written a script in which several calculations >> are >> made and outputfiles (csv) are generated. Afterwards I open another >> program >> (Fortran) via shell.exec. This program asks for the names if the output >> files and it would be quite practically if it could just adopt the file >> names from the r script. >> > Hi Tamara, > If the succeeding program can read the name of the input file via the > command line arguments, like: > > myfortranprogram -i myfile.csv > > you can include the arguments in the shell call. Alternatively, you > could have R write a shell script that would execute the program with > the appropriate arguments, then call the shell script from R. Of course > if your program has to have keyboard input for the filename, you would > have to resort to magic like writing the filename into the keystroke > buffer. > > Jim > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.