README.md

In kos59125/RaaS: R as a Shell

RaaS

Loads Unix commands into an R environment and enables to invoke them.

Installation

#install.packages("devtools")

devtools::install_github("kos59125/RaaS")

Examples

> library(RaaS)
> # Just type a unix command
> ls
Applications
Desktop
Documents
...
> # Command with parameters
> # The following command is same as "ls -l Desktop"
> ls[-l, Desktop]
drwx------+  4 user  group  0  1 1 00:00 .
drwxr-xr-x+  4 user  group  0  1 1 00:00 ..
...

Hint: if a parameter contains special characters (e.g. white-space), the parameter should be quoted by backticks.

Limitations

• Some commands does not work well in R interactive environment

kos59125/RaaS documentation built on May 20, 2019, 1:08 p.m.