Thank you very much, Professor Ripley!
I am using Windows 2000 and the intern=T argument of
system() did exactly what I needed: Now system()
returns the output of the external program as an
object.
Thanks again,
Werner
--- Gustaf Rydevik [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
On 9/4/07, Werner
On 9/4/07, Werner Wernersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to capture the console output of program I
call via system() but that always returns only
character(0).
For example:
capture.output(system(pdflatex out.tex) )
will yield:
character(0)
and the output still written to
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Gustaf Rydevik wrote:
On 9/4/07, Werner Wernersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to capture the console output of program I
call via system() but that always returns only
character(0).
For example:
capture.output(system(pdflatex out.tex) )
will yield:
Hi,
I am trying to capture the console output of program I
call via system() but that always returns only
character(0).
For example:
capture.output(system(pdflatex out.tex) )
will yield:
character(0)
and the output still written to the R console.
Is there a command for intercepting this