call python with system() in R to run a python script emulating the python console

Question

I want to pass a chunk of Python code to Python in R with something like system(\'python ...\'), and I\'m wondering if there is an easy way to emulate the pytho

Answer 1

The system command has an option called intern = FALSE. Make this TRUE and Whatever output was just visible before, will be stored in a variable.

Now run your system command with this option and you should get your output directly in your variable. Like this

tmp <- system("python -c 'print \"hello world\"'",intern=T)