ppam_exe = function(pathToExe, nbProcess, ...) { command_line = paste("mpirun -np ",nbProcess," ",pathToExe,"/ppam.exe",sep="") args = list(...) for (i in 1:length(args)) command_line = paste(command_line, args[[i]]) print(paste("EXECUTE: '", command_line,"'",sep="")) system(command_line) }