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I'm trying to execute some linux commands from an R script. I am using R version 3.3.1 and system and system2 are not available for this version. is there any other solution to this?

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  • my need is not to run an R script from the command line but to run a command within my R script and use the output I'm getting for some further calculations – ananth_varma Jul 27 '16 at 16:38
  • Oh I see. That's odd... do you know why `system` and `system2` aren't available? – mechanical_meat Jul 27 '16 at 16:43
  • `system2` was "introduced in R 2.12.0"[?](https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/system2.html) Are those methods disabled by the administrator? If so, you probably can't do what you're wanting to do. – Will Jul 27 '16 at 16:46
  • I'm getting this message > install.packages("system") Warning in install.packages : package ‘system’ is not available (for R version 3.3.1) – ananth_varma Jul 27 '16 at 17:09
  • Isn't `system2` part of the `base` package? – Will Jul 27 '16 at 17:19
  • it isn't, unfortunately – ananth_varma Jul 27 '16 at 17:21
  • @ananth_varma Both `system` and `system2` are in the `base` package. You do not need to import them. If you wish to save the output of a terminal command, do `system('your command', intern=TRUE)`. – Abdou Jul 27 '16 at 18:39

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