[R] system(mysql... Does not recognize < as passing an attribute

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You are on Windows, and that is how system() works on Windows (not 
just in R, but in C, Perl ...).  The help says

command: the system command to be invoked, as a string.

A command line is not a 'system command', and the < is interpreted by the 
shell you are running as your 'command line in WIndows'.

Try shell() instead.

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Lapointe, Pierre wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is my command line request: mysql -u root -ppassword -D quant
> <c:/cline.txt
> This line works from the command line in windows.
>
> In R, when I try to use the system function, it does not work,
>
>> system(paste('mysql -u root -ppassword -D quant
> <c:/cline.txt'),show.output.on.console = TRUE)
> ERROR 1102 (42000): Incorrect database name '<c:/cline.txt'
>
> It seems that the "<" caracter is not recognized as an attribute.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pierre
>
>> version
>               _
> platform       i386-pc-mingw32
> arch           i386
> os             mingw32
> system         i386, mingw32
> status
> major          2
> minor          4.1
> year           2006
> month          12
> day            18
> svn rev        40228
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
>
>
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