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Run FME workspaces from within R

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  • October 16, 2017
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fmelizard
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Currently, FME has the ability to interface with the R Project through the RCaller transformer. This means that R processing is initiated by a run from within FME.

It might be useful to run FME workspaces from within R.

One way would be to provide an R plugin that wraps FME workspaces. Similar to rGdal or rGdalUtils :

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  • June 27, 2018

This is possible using existing R functionality. You can use the system or system2 functions from R package base to run an FME workspace or batch command file from the command line.

That said, an R package that lets R users run FME workspaces would still be nice.

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