Re: st: User input from shell script

[Roberto Ferrer <refp16@gmail.com>]

I'm not sure I understand but can you not have R intermittently
read/parse a -log- file produced by Stata?

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Thomas, Anthony
<anthony_h_thomas@brown.edu> 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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