[R] Bash script that uses an R command

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Make suitable changes for Linux (this was done in Windows Vista) but
you should be able to do without R.  In particular the double

echo 4.95 | gawk "{print int($1) "":"" 60*($1-int($1))}"

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:48 AM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have wriiten (with the help of the internet) a bash scirpt for my
> debian ppc 5.0 laptop to display battery remaining in a panel on the
> xfce desktop environment.
>
> echo `hal-device | grep battery.remaining_time | awk '{print $3/3600}' `-battery
>
> and this nicely spits out  4.95 hours in the panel.  This is fine
> except it is a snow day and I have some extra time on my hands.  I was
> wondering if I could write a little program that would take 4.95 and
> convert it into 4: (.95*6) in other words 4:57 in R and then use that
> in a shell script to tweak the battery remaining script.  I am sure
> there is a better way, but I am a noob to linux and have a couple of
> years with R.
> thanks
>
> --
> Stephen Sefick
>
> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
> so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
> make us feel like gods.  We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
> annoying little problems of being mammals.
>
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