store output of system command into a variable in r

Question

I am executing the following command in R :

system(\"ls \")

I need to store the output of the above command in some R variable. Is there a

Answer 1

why not use the corresponding R function?

a <- list.files()
b <- list.files(recursive = TRUE)

For more details

?list.files

Answer 2

Use intern=TRUE:

a <- system("ls ", intern = TRUE)