On 29/03/2010 5:14 PM, Matthew Keller wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to run the following from within R:
awk '{$3=$4="";gsub(" ","");print}' myfile > outfile
However, this obviously won't work:
system("awk '{$3=$4="";gsub(" ","");print}' myfile > outfile")
and this won't either:
system("awk '{$3=$4='';gsub(' ','');print}' myfile > outfile")
Can anyone help me out? I'm sure there's an obvious solution. Thanks,
Escape the quotes that match the ones you use in R:
system("awk '{$3=$4=\"\";gsub(\" \",\"\");print}' myfile > outfile")
or
system('awk \'{$3=$4="";gsub(" ","");print}\' myfile > outfile')
Duncan Murdoch
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