[R] Running a PERL script from R

[Charles C. Berry]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Pierce, Ken wrote:

> I've tried various configurations of .script, system and shell to no
> avail. It seems to pause and run "something" but then no output is
> created.

Works for me:

> cat( 'print "Hello World\n";',file="hello.pl" )
> system("perl hello.pl")
Hello World
>

Maybe a path issue?

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:edd at debian.org]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 1:11 PM
> To: Pierce, Ken
> Cc: r-help
> Subject: Re: [R] Running a PERL script from R
>
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:15:51PM -0700, Pierce, Ken wrote:
>> Is there a way to run a simple perl script from R?
>
> ?system
>
> Hth, Dirk
>
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