From thomas@biostat.washington.edu  Wed May 13 17:07:00 1998
From: thomas@biostat.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 09:07:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: R-beta: package ported from S to R
In-Reply-To: <199805131302.PAA21564@wrin27.urz.uni-wuppertal.de>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.980513090201.7060A-100000@chekov>

On Wed, 13 May 1998, Hubert Palme wrote:
> 
> OK, hopefully it stayes loading correctly now, so I'll try to debug
> it. There is an unknown function "unix". Is "system" the R
> replacement? If yes: There is no "input" parameter. How can I redirect
> input with "system"?
> 
> Is there also a replacement for "!" ?
> 

The function system() replaces both of them.  There is no input=
parameter, it looks like we typically use paste() -- for example see
system.file() or help.start().

You can replace unix.shell() with system("/bin/sh") or other shell of your
choice.


Thomas Lumley
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R-beta: package ported from S to R
Thomas Lumley