The read.xls function in the gdata package is another example (the call to system is actually in xls2csv which it calls).
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Marc Schwartz<marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > On Jun 29, 2009, at 8:58 AM, mau...@alice.it wrote: > >> I read some archived posts about calling R from Perl scripts. There seems >> to be an R package creating the necessaary interface. >> >> I'd like to do the opposite. That is to call Perl from an R script. >> I wonder whether this is possible at all ??? >> What about Bioperl which is a Perl variation built to deal with >> Bioinformatic datasets ? >> >> Thank you, >> Maura > > You would typically use the system() function to do this. See ?system for > more information. > > If you want to see a specific example, which includes passing arguments to > the Perl script, you can look at the R and Perl code in the WriteXLS package > on CRAN. > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
