Abby I assume that your OS in Windows — shell is Windows only. Fortunately, it appears that the changing “shell” to “system” works in OS X. So, now I have a solution for both OSs.
This issue was a prelude to a larger issue that I will address in a separate email. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone / Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) www.PLessThan.com <http://www.plessthan.com/> > On Nov 10, 2019, at 11:49 AM, Abby Spurdle <spurdl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > shell ("Java -version 2>&1", intern=TRUE) [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.