Johannes is entirely correct. Debian just assumes a sh-compatible shell. I think we're now on dash, it was ash for a while. These are used to keep the _boot_ system smaller where we have not used bash as the default /bin/sh in maybe a decade. Some, but few, scripts were adjusted. Users still default to bash.
R, for the record, tries very hard not to default to things like bashisms or GNU extensions to make as it tries (and succeeds) to build everywhere. What shell to use _locally_ is a local policy decision and can be overridden. If your scripts need bash, you can could - either rewrite them to only sh constructs (a pain) - override the Debian default and make bash the default This has little to nothing to do with R-on-Debian so this list is the wrong place. Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
