Execute system commands within an R Script
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To execute a system command from within an R script, just use system(). This is handy for zipping large output files on the fly.Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
write.csv(mydat, "mydat.csv")
system("gzip mydat.csv", wait=FALSE)
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