Ripley [rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Monday, 29 July 2013 5:08 PM
To: r-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [Rd] Shell Function not on Linux
You should read the documentation. shell() is specific to Windows, as
on all other platforms system() runs a shell. (This is an OS-level
difference: Windows is not
You should read the documentation. shell() is specific to Windows, as
on all other platforms system() runs a shell. (This is an OS-level
difference: Windows is not POSIX compliant.)
See also the manuals, e.g.
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Operating-system-access
Hello,
Using R for Windows, I am able to use the shell function :
R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) -- "Good Sport"
Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
... ...
> shell()
Error in shel
