[R] shell scripts in R

[Andrew Robinson]

Marco,

use the system command.

?system

I hope that this helps,

Andrew

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 05:14:38PM -0400, Marco Grazzi wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> How can I execute some scripts from within R.
> I have a large data file which I process (for instance with gawk, but not 
> only) before performing some statistics.
> I would like to do this in R, so that I do not have to save many data files 
> and then making analysis on them (which proved to be unefficient)
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Marco Grazzi
> 
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