[R] shell command

[Olsen, Norm]

This seems to work for me:

>shell(paste("cd ", "\"", getenv("RHOME"), "\"", sep=""))

as does:

>shell(paste('cd ', '"', getenv("RHOME"), '"', sep=""))

Norm



-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Darnell [mailto:R.E.Darnell at newcastle.ac.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 7:58 AM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] shell command


Using R (version 0.63.3) for MS windows, I try the following command

> shell(paste("cd ",getenv("RHOME"),sep=""))

which replies with an error message 

Too many parameters - FILES\RW0633  

which appears to suggest that the space if the path name is causing 
difficulties to the cd command. getenv returns

> getenv("RHOME")
                      RHOME 
"C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\RW0633" 

Can someone suggest a way of dealing with this.


Regards
Ross Darnell

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