README.md

In etiennebr/taco: Wrap system calls in R

taco

Taco is a package for R that provides an interface to easily wrap system calls and command line. You can easily chain command line arguments and provide simple validation. Taco is in its infancy. If you see something missing, add an issue at the top of this page.

Example

With taco you can easily wrap system calls in a functions. This is a commit example for git. There is a multitude of options, but let's keep it simple:

commit <- function(message = NA, all = TRUE, indir = getwd()) {
  arg <- paste( "commit",
    as_argument("a", all), 
    as_argument("m", message, mandatory = 1) # make message mandatory
  )
  system_dir(indir, "git", arg)
}

you can then call

commit("hello world")

Install

to install or update your taco package you need the devtoolspackage since taco is not on CRAN.

# install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github("taco", "etiennebr")

Contribute

Contributions are more than welcome. Create pull requests and issues using github.

etiennebr/taco documentation built on May 16, 2019, 9:06 a.m.