On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, STEPHEN M POWERS wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to trigger a process from within R. I have > an exectuable file that runs a Fortran model, but ideally, would like to > run it from R. Note that I'm not talking about importing the function at > all, passing variables, or anything complicated like that. I basically > just want a script that "double-clicks" on a particular file and > opens/runs it for me. > > The idea here is that the executable Fortran file, when double clicked, > simply draws all necessary inputs from text files within the same > directory and I have no need to change this. So I've used R to summarize > some raw data and format these required text input files in the way the > Fortran executable requires, and also have scripts to interpret the > Fortran text file outputs and summarize/plot them in R. The problem is I > must run the first part of the R script to send data from R to the > model, then double click the Fortran executable, then run the second > part of the R script to get the model outputs into R, in three separate > steps. Given that I may be doing this hundereds of times, I'd prefer to > do it all in one step. > > Any thoughts?---steve
It is described in the relevant manual: Writing R Extensions. ?system, and if this is Windows also ?shell and ?shell.exec. > ______________________________________________ > 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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. When you do, you will see that we asked for your OS which is relevant here. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
