>>>>> "jorgnsn" == jorgnsn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:52:27 +0100 (CET) writes:
jorgnsn> Full_Name: John Jorgensen
jorgnsn> Version: 2.4.0
jorgnsn> OS: Solaris 9
jorgnsn> Submission from: (NULL) (142.3.169.170)
jorgnsn> This is not a serious problem, but while trying to
jorgnsn> understand some difficulties that R had finding our
jorgnsn> copy of mozilla, I noticed that the browseURL()
jorgnsn> function defined in help.start.R includes the
jorgnsn> lines:
jorgnsn> system(paste(browser, remoteCmd, "2>&1 >/dev/null ||",
jorgnsn> browser, quotedUrl, "&"))
jorgnsn> I assume the intent is to hide the "No running
jorgnsn> window found" or equivalent message that the
jorgnsn> remoteCmd might print before trying to start a new
jorgnsn> instance of the browser. On the shells I've tried,
jorgnsn> though, you need to reverse the order of the
jorgnsn> redirections to achieve this, i.e.: ">dev/null
jorgnsn> 2>&1" instead of "2>&1 > /dev/null".
jorgnsn> Apologies if I've misunderstood your intent, or if
jorgnsn> there are other shells where you need the order
jorgnsn> you've used.
I don't think there are. It looks like you are entirely right,
and we use the correct order "> /dev/null 2>&1" in quite a few
other places.
Thank you for the report.
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
______________________________________________
R-devel@r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
