Re: [R] R command system under Windows

You could use shell indeed On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Aurelie Labbe, Dr. wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to use the R command "system" under windows (XP). If I try the > simple command system("mkdir toto") to create a directory toto, it tells me > that it cannot find the command mkdir... > Doe

Re: [R] R command system under Windows

?dir.create mkdir is a built-in for 'cmd.exe' (think of it like shell built-ins in unix, vs. an actual command in $PATH) system('cmd.exe /c mkdir foo') works, but the R command: dir.create is what you really want. On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 14:17, Aurelie Labbe, Dr. wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to

[R] R command system under Windows

Hi, I am trying to use the R command "system" under windows (XP). If I try the simple command system("mkdir toto") to create a directory toto, it tells me that it cannot find the command mkdir... Does anybody knows how it works ? Is it a path problem ? Maybe the answer is simple: I am a R us