On Oct 30, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Jonathan Greenberg <j...@illinois.edu> wrote:
> R-developers: > > I have a small python script that I'd like to include in an R package I'm > developing, but I'm a bit unclear about which subfolder it should go in. R > will be calling the script via a system() call. Thanks! > > --j See Writing R Extensions Manual, section 1.1.7: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Non_002dR-scripts-in-packages If you want to see a package example, my WriteXLS package uses Perl, but the concepts will be the same: https://github.com/marcschwartz/WriteXLS If you look at WriteXLS.R around line 130, you can see an example of getting the $PATH to the included Perl scripts that I use, which are in the 'inst/Perl' folder. Further down around line 230, is where the script is called via system(). Note the use of shQuote() for some arguments. Regards, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
