Hello,
Try instead
command <- paste(aa, fnm)
system(command)
And read the help page for ?paste
Hope this helps,
Rui Barradas
Em 14-04-2014 20:02, Doran, Harold escreveu:> I need to send a system command to another program from within R but have a
small hangup
>
> I'm trying to do something like this
>
> system("notepad myfile.txt")
>
> But, more generally this is happening to multiple files, so I loop over
thousands of files. For purposes of an example, my code is something like this,
which does not work
>
> aa <- 'notepad.exe'
> fnm <- 'myfile.txt'
> system("aa fnm")
>
> Any suggestions?
> Harold
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