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2013 Apr 02
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How to do platform independent system calls?
Dear R experts,
I hope everyone has had a happy easter break.
Recently my work included writing R function that need to call external tools.
I did this using R's system function for example:
system( paste( 'tool', '-input', path_to_input, '-output',
path_to_output, '-other_switch', some_val ) )
I have two question about this:
1) Is there a way to implement such calls to external tools, so they
become platform independent? I mean, so that these calls will work
both on a *nix and a Windows system?
2) Is there a way to generate platform independent p...