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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,

...1". For example, if in one terminal window [A] you start the command   cat myFIFO1 then in another [B] you   echo "Some text to test my FIFO" > myFIFO1 you will find that this text will be output in the [A] window by the 'cat' command. Similarly, you could 'mkfifo myFIFO2' and write tc this while in the [A] window, and read from it while in the [B] window. So, if you can get R to write to myFIFO1 (which is being read from by another program which will send the output to a remote machine which that program is logged into), and read from myFIFO2 which is being wr...