vbscript

Enables easy calling of vbscript files from R. This package can be used to automatically interact with GUIs in Windows when there is no other choice.

Installation

devtools::install_github("WetRobot/vbscript")

Examples

Print something in vbscript

library(vbscript)

call_vbscript_lines(vbscript_lines_echo("hello world!"))

Execute some keystrokes in notepad

library(vbscript)

shell.exec("notepad")
write_to_notepad <- c(
  vbscript_lines_set_focus_to_window("Notepad"), 
  vbscript_lines_execute_keystrokes(c("h", "e", "l", "l", "o")), 
  vbscript_lines_set_focus_to_window("Notepad"), 
  vbscript_lines_execute_keystrokes(c("{ENTER}", "w","o","r","l", "d", "!"))
)
call_vbscript_lines(write_to_notepad)