On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Søren Højsgaard wrote:
> Dear R-experts,
> I run R in a shell under Emacs on Win2k using ESS. I get the following strange error
>
> > shell("copy c:\\file.txt c:\\newfile.txt")
> warning: extra args ignored after 'copy'
> Forkert syntaks for kommandoen.
> Warning message:
> cmd execution failed with error code 1 in: shell("copy c:\\file.txt
> c:\\newfile.txt")
>
> The same problem emerges independently of whether I use a dos or bash as shell!
>
> However, if I run the shell() thing in the Gui, things work fine and so do they in
> Rterm
>
> Can anyone help me?
I suspect Emacs/ESS has set the SHELL variable: you can ask shell to use a
specific shell via its second argument or by setting R_SHELL.
bash won't work, as `copy' is a DOS internal command.
Why don't you just use file.copy()?
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