I think you need to go actually spend some time with powershell before you make more assumptions about it and it's behavior. > Shell has a kind of code <-> dat

I think you need to go actually spend some time with powershell before you make more assumptions about it and it's behavior. > Shell has a kind of code <-> data <-> code <-> data architecture, i.e. programs in different languages processing standard language-independent data formats (lines of text, JSON, HTML, QSN, etc.) Powershell natively understands these with builtins. You can convert from and to json, xml, html, csv, and excel. > What if I want to pass some data to R and plot it? Just pipe it to your R program like you would any other shell.