R help - Jan 2009 - System with manual options

Hi

I was wondering if there was a way to run system when there
is e.g. a C program which is not totally command-line driven.
That is, I have a C program which requires manual input of
options into the shell during the run. I would like to run this program from
R and as far as I have seen system() does not handle manual options (?).

Is there thus a way to use these C programs anyway through
R (i.e. without touching the C programs and fixing the problem in R)?

Thanks a lot for any comments.

-- 
Hadassa Brunschwig
PhD Student
Department of Statistics
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
http://www.stat.huji.ac.il

See ?pipe. You can pipe input to a program you run that way.

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Hadassa Brunschwig wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was wondering if there was a way to run system when there
> is e.g. a C program which is not totally command-line driven.
> That is, I have a C program which requires manual input of
> options into the shell during the run. I would like to run this program
from
> R and as far as I have seen system() does not handle manual options (?).
>
> Is there thus a way to use these C programs anyway through
> R (i.e. without touching the C programs and fixing the problem in R)?
I think you mean 'using R".
> Thanks a lot for any comments.
>
> --
> Hadassa Brunschwig
> PhD Student
> Department of Statistics
> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
> http://www.stat.huji.ac.il
-- 
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