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14 OS facilities
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R has quite extensive facilities to access the OS under which it is
running: this allows it to be used as a scripting language and that
ability is much used by R itself, for example to install packages.

   Because R's own scripts need to work across all platforms,
considerable effort has gone into make the scripting facilities as
platform-independent as is feasible.

Files and directories

Filepaths

System commands

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