[R] how to run system command

[Sarah Goslee]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:48 AM, sagarnikam123 <sagarnikam123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> i used it on windows system, but giving error like
>
>> e <- system("date", intern=TRUE)
> Error in system("date", intern = TRUE) : 'date' not found

If you type date at a windows command line does it work?

You can't use system() to run system commands that don't
exist on your system. I don't run windows, and have no
idea what the command/syntax to obtain the date might be.

It was already suggested you use Sys.Date() instead, and
only use system() for system commands not duplicated in R.

Sarah-


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