[R] output of system() call not returned in Win98

[Roger Bivand]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Barrowman, Nick wrote:

> On one machine running Win98 and R 1.2.2 this command works:
> 
> 	system("command.com /c dir",show=T,invisible=T)
> 
> On another machine also running Win98 and R 1.2.2 it does not.
> Nothing appears.
> 
Maybe try:

> list.files()

which should be less platform-dependent than system() for listing the
current directory?

Does this also affect the output of programs that are not command shells?

Roger

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