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Dear R People: I would like to set up a plug-in for Rcmdr to do the following: I would start on a Linux laptop. Then I would log into another outside system and run a some commands. Now, when I tried to do system("ssh erin at xxx.edu") password xxxxxx It goes to the remote system. how do I continue to issue commands from the Linux laptop please? (hope this makes sense) thanks,

...t program is logged into), and read from myFIFO2 which is being written to by that other program (and that is easy to do in R, using connections), then you have the plumbing set up. But, to set it up, R needs to call in the plumber. In other words, R needs to execute a command like   system("MakeMyFIFOs") where MakeMyFIFOs is a script that creates myFIFO1 and myFIFO2, logs in to the remote machine, watches myFIFO1 and sends anything it reads to the remote machine, watches for any feedback from the remote machine and then writes this into myFIFO2. Meanwhile, back in R, any time you want R t...