R console hangs
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
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