R BATCH jobs from Python

[Heiko Wundram]

Am Sonntag, 21. November 2004 01:04 schrieb Terry Hancock:
> But I suspect it looks like this:
>
> os.system('cd c:\Applications\R\rw1091\bin')
> os.system('Rcmd BATCH c:\test.txt')

Look out for the snake's escaping rules... I bet you meant:

os.system(r'cd c:\Applications\R\rw1091\bin')
os.system(r'Rcmd BATCH c:\test.txt')

So that the backslash doesn't escape the next character, but is verbatim... 
That's one reason to hate windows... ;)

Heiko.