With Debian and macOS, the default editor (getenv("EDITOR") or
getOption("editor")) is "vi" which opens vi/vim. The following instruction:
fileREP <- file.path(R.home("etc"), "repositories")
system2(getOption("editor"), fileREP, wait = FALSE)
works fine with Windows but is inappropriate in the Debian/RStudio/RCode
console as it launchs vi/vim, warns about input and outputs and prints
the text file WITHIN the R console and then does nothing. Closing vi/vim
requires a manual action. In several tests, I even had to force R to
recover. Hence My question is:
What is the system(), sytem2(), eventually file.edit() instruction that
opens the text file with vi/vim in a NEW Unix terminal and allows to
keep working in the R console?
Thank you for your advices.
--
Patrice Kiener
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