[R] System exit codes

Ranjan Bagchi ranjan at frotz.com
Wed Jul 30 20:27:05 CEST 2008


Hi --

Is there a way of detecting the exit code while calling system or pipe?
eg (on Unix)

> system("perl -e 'print \"foo\\\n\";exit(-1);'")
foo

Any help appreciated,

Ranjan



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