Tomaz Kastrun takes us through calling CMD commands from R:
From time to time, when developing in R, working and wrangling data , preparing for machine learning projects, it comes the time, one would still need to access the operating system commands from/in R.
In this blog post, let’s take a look at some most useful cmd commands when using R. Please note, that the cmd commands apply only to windows environment, for Linux/MacOS, the system commands should be slightly changed, but the wrapper R code should remains the same.
The need does come up, so it’s good to have that knowledge at hand.