Well, R is cross-platform. If you issue system commands I think it is clear that it may differ depending on the system (think if Windows or Mac).
Anyway, you would need to bring this up on debian-devel or the respective fedora lists, as it seems to me you are complaining about the system defaults. As far as I can see, this is not under the control of the R packaging. Please correct me if I am wrong. Johannes Am Freitag, 7. März 2014, 01:24:42 schrieb Harutyun Khachatryan: > The problem is that for R in CenOS 6.5 default SHELL is BASH instead of > dash. This arouse some compatibility issues running the same shell > script from R in different systems like CentOS, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mageia > versus Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint. So one must take care running shell > script in R depending Linux distributive version. I do not think it is good > practice. > > > > > On Friday, March 7, 2014 12:10 PM, Johannes Ranke <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > Am Donnerstag, 6. März 2014, 23:46:28 schrieb Harutyun Khachatryan: > > Dear all, > > > > > > I am experiencing this problem with R in Debian 6. > > > > The config saying about default shell in R for Debian 6 is in file > > /usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf (line 80 "SHELL = /bin/bash") > > The comment on line 67 suggest that this variable is only used during the > build process. > > > but in Debian 6 > > default shell for R is always SH instead of BASH. > > The default shell in Debian 6 is dash (it was bash before): > > https://wiki.debian.org/Shell > > > It can be checked by just > > typing in R system("echo $BASH_VERSION"). The same command system("echo > > $BASH_VERSION") in R for Centos 6.5 answers "4.1.2(1)-release". Also for > > Debian 6 in terminal command "echo $BASH_VERSION" also answers > > "4.1.2(1)-release". So it seems it is the problem of R configuration for > > Debian 6. > > I see no problem to use bash during the build process and have dash as the > default shell for the system. bash and dash happily coexist. > > > I have installed R from CRAN by method described in > > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/. > > Were you successful? > > > The same problem exists for > > Ubuntu 12.04. I suppose this kind of problem exists for every Debian like > > i.e. Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and others system. > > It seems to me that there is no problem. > > Johannes > > > Thank you in advance. > > Regards, Harutyun Khachatryan. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] -- PD Dr. Johannes Ranke Kronacher Str. 8 79639 Grenzach-Wyhlen _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
