On this issue: http://bugs.r-project.org/cgi-bin/R/incoming?id=14008
Here's a small patch which fixes the problem: $ svn diff src/main/sysutils.c src/unix/sys-unix.c Index: src/main/sysutils.c =================================================================== --- src/main/sysutils.c (revision 49961) +++ src/main/sysutils.c (working copy) @@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ #else fp = popen(command, type); #endif + if (NULL == fp) { + error(_("popen failed with errno %i: %s"), errno, strerror(errno)); + } return fp; } #endif /* HAVE_POPEN */ Index: src/unix/sys-unix.c =================================================================== --- src/unix/sys-unix.c (revision 49961) +++ src/unix/sys-unix.c (working copy) @@ -270,6 +270,11 @@ PROTECT(tlist); fp = R_popen(translateChar(STRING_ELT(CAR(args), 0)), x); + if (NULL == fp) { + UNPROTECT(1); + errorcall(call, _("R_popen returned NULL.")); + return R_NilValue; + } for (i = 0; fgets(buf, INTERN_BUFSIZE, fp); i++) { read = strlen(buf); if(read >= INTERN_BUFSIZE - 1) -- Andrew Piskorski <a...@piskorski.com> http://www.piskorski.com/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel