store output of system command into a variable in r

RVariablesSystem

R Problem Overview

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 way to do the same??

R Solutions

Solution 1 - R

Use intern=TRUE:

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

Solution 2 - R

why not use the corresponding R function?

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

For more details

?list.files
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