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Re: st: User input from shell script
From
Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: User input from shell script
Date
Thu, 14 Nov 2013 19:05:58 -0500
Anthony, you can let the user input from Stata's command line with:
display "Enter parameter alpha: " _request(alpha)
display $alpha
Later you can pass this parameter to R if needed.
Best, Sergiy Radyakin
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Thomas, Anthony
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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