Re: [R] Using a console application from within R

2006-01-31 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
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 appli

[R] Using a console application from within R

2006-01-31 Thread Jonathan Weeks
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(pat