Marco, use the system command.
?system I hope that this helps, Andrew On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 05:14:38PM -0400, Marco Grazzi wrote: > > Hi, > > How can I execute some scripts from within R. > I have a large data file which I process (for instance with gawk, but not > only) before performing some statistics. > I would like to do this in R, so that I do not have to save many data files > and then making analysis on them (which proved to be unefficient) > > Thank you > > Marco Grazzi > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- Andrew Robinson Senior Lecturer in Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-9763 Department of Mathematics and Statistics Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html