can you use the system function? system("echo $PATH")
On Feb 2, 11:10 am, David Epstein <david.epst...@warwick.ac.uk> wrote: > I use a Mac (10.4.11 Mac Os X). > > In my .tcshrc I define an environmental variable MY. > Is it possible to find out its value from inside R? When one loads > R for Mac OS X Cocoa GUI written by: > Simon Urbanek > Stefano M. Iacus > are files like .tcshrc read by R? > > Can I make the value of this environmental variable available to R? > > Sys.getenv() produces a lot of output, with the values of many environmental > variables, but not this one. > > Do I need a file with the correct value of MY, and have both R and my Unix > shell read the same file, or is there a better way to proceed? I want to > avoid duplicating the information in source files, as this can lead to a > setup that is very hard to maintain. > > Thanks for any help. > David > -- > View this message in > context:http://www.nabble.com/Environmental-variables-tp21782296p21782296.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@r-project.org mailing listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ 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.