Thie "system" command in R takes the first argument and passes that to the shell in which R is running. 1) I run R in the bash shell under Fedora Linux version 30 2) I have installed "mplayer" as an audio/visual player that can be called from the bash shell 3) The command I pass says "Start the mplayer program using the first argument as the file to process.
One method is to find the easiest way to play an audio/visual file on your system and then call it from R using "system". Other ways using R packages have been suggested by other respondents. Jim On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 5:26 PM Vahid Borji <vahid.borj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Jim, > > Thank you for your answer. > > I have a question for you. > > This is your code: system("mplayer /home/jim/songs/bimbo_soul.mp3", > wait=FALSE,ignore.stdout=TRUE) > > 1. Which part of your code is related to call a music player? > > 2. Which part is related to call a music file? > > I want to do this on my laptop, so I need to understand your code (the answer > to the above questions). > > Regards, > Vahid > > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 1:45 AM Jim Lemon <drjimle...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Vahid, >> The following command: >> >> system("mplayer /home/jim/songs/bimbo_soul.mp3", >> wait=FALSE,ignore.stdout=TRUE) >> >> works fine for me. Of course you'll have to specify a music player and >> music file that you have... >> >> Jim >> >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 4:02 AM Vahid Borji <vahid.borj...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hello my R friends, >> > >> > How can we call a music file from our laptop (for example from desktop) and >> > play it in R? Could you please give me an explicit example by writing >> > commands in R. Is it necessary for our music file to be in a specific >> > format? If yes, which format it has to be? >> > >> > Thank you in advance >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.