Dear R community, I am trying to understand what the shell() function does.
An example is: xfile <- shell(paste("dir/b ", paste(directory.folder,"file.name",sep="")),intern=T) I'm afraid I wasn't able to completely understand the explanation under the Help files. Thanks for your help! Leanne. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/What-does-the-shell-command-do-tp3215032p3215032.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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.