[R] Invoke operating system command

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Thu Jul 13 20:43:11 CEST 2006


Gang Chen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> How can I invoke an operating system command in R? I mean something  
> like exclamation mark (!) inside Matlab.


See ?system (and additionally ?shell if you are on Windows).

Uwe Ligges

> Thanks,
> Gang
> 
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