Dear Jason,
Try this:
shell.exec('C:/WINDOWS/NotePad.exe')
HTH,
Jorge
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Jason Rupert <jasonkrup...@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> For example, from within an R script I would like to be able to launch
> NotePad.exe.
>
> Is there an R call for launching Notepad.exe from within R?
>
> I've tried the following, but they don't seem to work:
> > system(paste('"C:/WINDOWS/NOTEPAD.exe"'), wait = FALSE)
> > system("C:/WINDOWS/NOTEPAD.exe", wait = FALSE)
> > system("NOTEPAD", wait = FALSE)
>
> That is, these do not bring up the Notepad GUI.
>
> Thanks for any insights.
>
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