Dear R-friends, i just look at http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/leute/ligges.htm to download scatterplot3 and saw a write and read wav-files library. So i wondered if R can play wav-files. This would be very practical, espacially when you do some long computations. If not, can R play a system beep or something like that? Thanks, Thomas -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Pesl Thomas wrote:> i just look at http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/leute/ligges.htm to > download scatterplot3 and saw a write and read wav-files library. So i > wondered if R can play wav-files. This would be very practical, espacially > when you do some long computations. > If not, can R play a system beep or something like that?My package for reading and writing wave-files is based on the Rstreams package from Duncan Murdoch. I think R itself is not able to play wave-files or a system beep, maybe you can do it with a system() or shell() call, but that is OS specific. Uwe Ligges -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Pesl Thomas wrote:> Dear R-friends, > > i just look at http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/leute/ligges.htm to > download scatterplot3 and saw a write and read wav-files library. So i > wondered if R can play wav-files. This would be very practical, espacially > when you do some long computations. > If not, can R play a system beep or something like that?R can only do these things on hardware that supports it.... On most systems ASCII char 7 (\a) will beep. E.g. on my Sun cat("\a") will sound the bell (actually flash the terminal as I have visual bell set). I believe that works on Windows too (it certainly has in the past) but as I have my sound card muted I would not notice. On Windows R can play .wav files (and anything else the OS can handle) via the shell.exec function. That's the general soulution here: use the OS to do the things it is good at, and R for the things it is good at. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk 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 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._