On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Jeff Breiwick <jeff.breiw...@noaa.gov> wrote: > All, > > I had a simple function call I used to open up a dos shell running R under > Win XP: > system("cmd.exe", wait=FALSE, invisible=FALSE). > > This does not work with R 2.12.1 - I get a window that briefly flashes open > but then disappears. Does anyone know the method to open a DOS command > window in running R with Win XP? Thank you. >
This works on my Vista system: shell("start cmd") -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.