This is now resolved in R-devel. It does seem MacOS-specific, but we don't know why it differs from Linux or Solaris, say.
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Robin Hankin wrote: > MacOSX10.4.11; R-2.6.1 (downloaded the dmg yesterday). > > I am having difficulty with system(). In my case the unix command > produces > a single very very long line and my toy example appears to > hang R: > > string <- "yes | sed 10q | tr '\n' ' ' " > a <- system(string,intern=TRUE) > > in the R Console R seems to hang and > I need to force-quit. > > Things are better on a terminal but I still need to type control-C > to suspend the system() command. > > Anyone? > > -- > Robin Hankin > Uncertainty Analyst and Neutral Theorist, > National Oceanography Centre, Southampton > European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK > tel 023-8059-7743 > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
