[R] popen() ?

Oliver oliver at first.in-berlin.de
Fri May 14 12:09:31 CEST 2010


Hello,


is there a possibility to call a program (like with system())
and read back the data it prints to stdout?

On Unix/Linux there is the popen() systemcall, which does this.

Is it available in R?
Maybe via extra packages?

Ciao,
  Oliver



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