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...ds: in DESCRIPTION file and thereby be sure that perl were available. They could then access it via: perlcmd <- if (.Platform$OS == "windows") "perl.exe" else "perl" perl <- system.file(perlcmd, package = "perl") cmd <- paste(perl, my_command) system(cmd) An actual interface to R, as in tcltk, while nice to have is not an essential part of this and could be omitted to make this easier to accomplish. 10. eliminate dependence of R on perl (this seems to be occurring or maybe its already happened). For those packages needing perl th...