st: User input from shell script

["Thomas, Anthony" <anthony_h_thomas@brown.edu>]

Hi Statalist,

I am trying to write an ado file (Stata 11 for Linux) that calls an R
program which requests user input from "stdin" - in this case the
system command line. So a simplified example would be:

     shell Rscript rProgram.r ...

The R program will periodically pause and request input from the user
before continuing. For those familiar with R, the actual call in the
program is: readLines(file('stdin'), 1).

However, when the R program is called from Stata, R does not recognize
the Stata command line as a source of input and skips the steps of
asking for user input. Is there any way to pipe the output of the
Stata command line to R, or to the system command line? I hope this
question makes some sense...

Thanks,

Anthony
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