On 12 Aug 2003, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote: > "Simon Fear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > system("COMMAND.COM /c dir /b", intern=T, show.output.on.console=T) > > character(0) > > > print(system("COMMAND.COM /c dir /b", intern=F, > > show.output.on.console=T)) > > [1] 0 > > > > In both cases here a DOS window opens and lists a couple of hundred > > files, > > before giving the above output. > > Does it help if you drop the "COMMAND.COM /c" bit??
No, but as `dir' is an internal command, it does help to use shell() and not system(). It is shell() that is the equivalent of S-PLUS's dos() command. Not that R has dir() and list.files(), though. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help