From jeroen.ooms at stat.ucla.edu  Tue Sep 24 16:37:27 2013
From: jeroen.ooms at stat.ucla.edu (Jeroen Ooms)
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:37:27 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Capture output of install.packages (pipe system2)
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> x <- system2("Rscript", "-e \"install.packages('MASS',
> repos='http://probability.ca/cran')\"", stdout=TRUE, stderr=TRUE)

Thank you, this suggestion seems to work (although I agree that
starting 3 procs to install a single package seems suboptimal). One
additional question: is it safe to assume that the "Rscript"
executable can always be found by the R process (cross platform), or
do I need to modify the example in case Rscript is not in the system
search path?



[Rd] Capture output of install.packages (pipe system2)
Jeroen Ooms