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sedeh
sedeh

Reputation: 7313

Programmatically open a text file in R?

Is there something in R to open a text file? In Python, one could open a text file using notepad: 

import subprocess as sp
programName = "notepad.exe"
fileName = "file.txt"
sp.Popen([programName, fileName])

Other methods are described in the post as well. Is there something similar in R?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1463

Answers (1)

nrussell
nrussell

Reputation: 18602

Keeping in mind portability issues, i.e. this is specific to Windows, you can use shell.exec, which will open the file in whatever program is associated with that type of file by default - e.g. 

## full path
shell.exec(paste0(c(getwd(), "/tmpfile.txt"),collapse = ""))
## relative to current working directory
shell.exec("tmpfile.txt")

both open tmpfile.txt in notepad on my machine.

Upvotes: 3

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