Published in rOpenSci - open tools for open science
Authors Jeroen Ooms, Maëlle Salmon
Have you ever found a command-line tool that’s perfect for getting your job done, and wanted to use it from an R script or package?E.g. some sort of scientific software providing a specific functionality made available though a command-line interface (CLI)? In this post, we have a look at a few options for writing such CLI wrappers in R.In particular, we compare the base R functions system() and system2(), the sys package and the processx