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## Run Unix or Dos Depending on System

### Description

Runs `unix` or `dos` depending on the current operating system. For R, just runs `system` with optional concatenation of first two arguments which are assumed named `command` and `text`.

### Usage

    sys(command, text=NULL, output=TRUE)
    # S-Plus: sys(..., minimized=FALSE)

### Arguments

`command` | system command to execute
`text` | text to concatenate to system command, if any (typically options or file names or both)
`output` | set to `FALSE` to not return output of command as a character vector

### Value

see `unix` or `dos`

### Side Effects

executes system commands

### See Also

`unix`, `system`

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