Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> According to ?system (R-release)
>
> system(command, intern=FALSE)
>
> but the actual syntax is function(call, intern = FALSE, trash.errors >
FALSE).
>
> So, is it `call' or `command', and what does `trash.errors' do?
(I assume
> it is intended to make stderr be ignored, but that would not be my
> guess from the name, and is shell-dependent, let alone system-dependent.)
>
> I'll crawl back to documenting system() on Windows....
Filing as bug report. With 0.63.3 due out tomorrow, I don't want to fix
bugs that haven't actually bitten anyone. But yes, the docs should be
fixed to describe the actual code, it probably should be "command" and
"trash.errors = FALSE" could be something like "stderr =
TRUE".
The shell-dependency is probably not avoidable, but - at least on
Linux - system and popen have /bin/sh hardcoded (POSIX?).
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