I know to run a shell script in **R** is using system command:

```
my.table <- system(command,intern=TRUE)

```

However, if the result of my "command" is to print out a table, and I want R to read the table directly into its own data structure. (something like data frame) Is there an easy way to do that? Because the current output in "table" is a character string table. What I want is the **R** object as read.table().