I think you are looking for the system() command.
Michael
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Christof Kluß <ckl...@email.uni-kiel.de> wrote:
> Hi Jim, Hi Ken
>
> Am 27-11-2011 00:00, schrieb jim holtman:
>>
>> There is the 'pdftk' (PDF tool kit) that you will find on the web that
>> will do the job. I have used it to both combine and split out the
>> pages in the PDF file.
>
> yes, thx. GUI tools like www.pdfsam.org do the job too. But is there a
> possibility to append files directly in R. That is to invoke "pdftk" inside
> R with a "shellandwait"?
>
> perhaps something like
>
> for (i in ...) {
> ...
> savePlot(filename="temp.pdf", type="pdf")
> exec pdftk temp.pdf final.pdf cat output final.pdf
> }
>
> greetings
> Christof
>
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