Chapter 15 Language Co-Working

[This chapter is written for *nix users.]

Sometimes the R langauge alone can not achieve the maxmimal utility of analytics. Why not integrate with other language, say, Python or simply Shell? This chapter introduces a very basic idea of using system call to fullfill language co-working on analytics.

15.1 Use system call

15.2 Pipelines: stdin and stdout

15.3 Environment Variables

15.4 Command Line Arguments Revisited

15.5 With Configuration Files