systemR

Launches another R process from within R

Launches another R process from within R via system() by automatically locating the R executable, cf [1].

Usage

## S3 method for class 'default':
systemR(command="", ..., Rcommand="R", verbose=FALSE)

References

[1] R-devel thread 'Best way to locate R executable from within R?', May 22, 2012.

See Also

The R executable is located using R.home(), which is then launched using system().

Aliases

• systemR.default
• systemR
• systemR

Examples

res <- systemR("--slave -e cat(runif(1))", intern=TRUE)
cat("A random number: ", res, "", sep="")