[R] system(wait = FALSE) seems to fail

Oliver Soong osoong+r at gmail.com
Fri Jan 14 03:11:10 CET 2011


I'm having problems with system(wait = FALSE) with R 2.12.1 (both i386
and x64 versions) on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine.

This is as expected:
print(system("cmd /c dir", wait = TRUE))

This fails:
print(system("cmd /c dir", wait = FALSE))

I did not see this with 2.12.0, and things seem to work fine with R
2.12.1 on a 32-bit XP machine.  Can anybody else confirm what I'm
seeing here?

Oliver



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