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Calling external programs (other than R or Matlab)

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 4:08 am
by BrsG
Hi there,

I would like to call/launch a simple exe (that fetches data from various sources) from within Eviews. No reference to functionality of that program - other than launching it - is required. Is there a way to do this?

Cheers

Re: Calling external programs (other than R or Matlab)

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 7:13 am
by BrsG
I should have mentioned that the program I would like to use is a command line type program that runs under DOS.

Re: Calling external programs (other than R or Matlab)

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 9:18 am
by EViews Gareth
Use either the SHELL or SPAWN commands.

Re: Calling external programs (other than R or Matlab)

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 7:26 am
by BrsG
Works. Many thanks.