Try your same system command, but set intern=TRUE in the call and see if that does what you want.
-- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Harsh > Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 2:13 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] calling Perl script from R on Windows 7 > > Hi list, > I would like to capture the console output of a Perl script by running > the > script from R. > I have tried the following: > > # Create perl script > cat( 'print "Hello World\n";',file="hello.pl" ) > > # Trial 1 > system(command="c:\\Perl64\\bin\\perl hello.pl") > > -I saw no output for the above command. I have used this method before > to > run perl scripts that performed tasks, but only now do I want to > capture the > perl output from the print command within the perl script > > # Trial 2 > system(command=paste(Sys.getenv("COMSPEC"),"/c","C:\\Perl64\\bin\\perl > hello.pl")) > - In the help for 'system' in R, it mentions making the above changes > if one > wants to pass a command to the cmd on a windows machine. > > > I am using R 2.9.2 on Windows 7. > > I'm doing this since I want to run perl scripts to find distance > measures > between words (Wordnet Similarity perl modules) and capture the numeric > result from the perl script execution back into R. I have heard of > RSPerl > but I would greatly appreciate a solution using system. Writing the > result > to a file and then reading the file could be a another option, but I'd > like > to learn about capturing console output from perl into R. > > > Any suggestions or hints would be appreciated with much gratitude. > > Thanks > Harsh > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
