Don't know how you tell if its working but you need to write intern = TRUE
in order to get the output back. For example, this works for me: system("findstr [a-m]", input = letters, intern = TRUE) On 1/31/06, Jonathan Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to open a console application from within R and then send input > to the newly opened console. I can use the following to open the application > ... > > setwd(path) > system(paste(path,"icl.exe",sep="")) > > This allows me to type in what want, but I would like to do something like > this > > setwd(path) > system(paste(path,"icl.exe",sep=""),input=c("icl sim.tcl", > "exit"),wait=TRUE) > > If I include input as part of the system function the application opens and > then closes immediately without processing the input. > > Any assistance that you can offer would be greatly appreciated. > > Jonathan Weeks > Doctoral Student > School of Education > University of Colorado, Boulder > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 303-517-9666 > > ______________________________________________ > 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 > ______________________________________________ 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