On Jun 14, 2012, at 12:14 , syrvn wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I found out that it is possible to open the windows explorer with a
> predefined path via the cmd.exe program using the following command:
>
> explorer PATH
>
> Back in R using the following command opens up the windows explorer:
>
> system("explorer", intern=TRUE)
>
> However, when I specify a path R returns the following warning message and
> does not open the explorer at the specified path:
>
>> system("explorer C:\\Users\\xxx", intern=TRUE)
> character(0)
> attr(,"status")
> [1] 1
> Warning message:
> running command 'explorer C:\Users\xxx' had status 1
>
> I quoted the \ otherwise R complained about not recognising \U from \Users.
>
> However, when the command is executed as we would expect the double \\ are
> replaced by only one \.
>
> When I copy paste the explorer C:\Users\xxx bit from the R warning message
> into the cmd.exe program the explorer is opened up at the specified path.
>
> Does anybody have any idea why that fails?
Could it be taking the whole line as a command name (with an embedded space
character)?
You might need the shell() function rather than system().
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