Can't call cygwin commands from R
问题 I'm working in windows box, and using cygwin to imitate unix shell. Also I have R and want to run any system comand from it. I believe that system('command') would do this, but it didn't work for each 'command' . For example system('ls') returns /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/ls: write error: Bad file descriptor and I think that this is beacause R calls ls >& - which also returns same error. So how solve this problem? 回答1: I hope you are still interested in a solution. Here is what I have: Start R