Re: [R] system(..., invisible=FALSE, show.output.on.console=FALSE) in Windows 7

2011-03-14 Thread Ralph Olsson
ieck wrote: From: Gabor Grothendieck Subject: Re: [R] system(..., invisible=FALSE, show.output.on.console=FALSE) in Windows 7 To: "Ralph Olsson" Cc: r-help@r-project.org Date: Friday, 11 March, 2011, 14:58 On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Ralph Olsson wrote: > Hello, > > I work

Re: [R] system(..., invisible=FALSE, show.output.on.console=FALSE) in Windows 7

2011-03-11 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Ralph Olsson wrote: > Hello, > > I work for a company in which a number of employees use R. Many of them like > to run executables via the system function in such a way that the output of > that executable is displayed in a separate window. To give an example of

Re: [R] system(..., invisible=FALSE, show.output.on.console=FALSE) in Windows 7

2011-03-11 Thread Ralph Olsson
, Duncan Murdoch wrote: From: Duncan Murdoch Subject: Re: [R] system(..., invisible=FALSE, show.output.on.console=FALSE) in Windows 7 To: "jim holtman" Cc: "Ralph Olsson" , r-help@r-project.org Date: Wednesday, 9 March, 2011, 20:55 On 09/03/2011 2:34 PM, jim holtman wr

Re: [R] system(..., invisible=FALSE, show.output.on.console=FALSE) in Windows 7

2011-03-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 09/03/2011 2:34 PM, jim holtman wrote: I see something similar on my system. Running your command line, I can see the command window flashup and then disappear. We have had issues in the past with setting the input file handle for external commands to an empty stream. Then cmd reads from

Re: [R] system(..., invisible=FALSE, show.output.on.console=FALSE) in Windows 7

2011-03-09 Thread jim holtman
I see something similar on my system. Running your command line, I can see the command window flashup and then disappear. > sessionInfo() R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16) Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [

[R] system(..., invisible=FALSE, show.output.on.console=FALSE) in Windows 7

2011-03-09 Thread Ralph Olsson
Hello, I work for a company in which a number of employees use R. Many of them like to run executables via the system function in such a way that the output of that executable is displayed in a separate window. To give an example of the behavior they require, the following command can be run in