[R] using system()

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 9/7/05, Thomas Petzoldt <thpe at hhbio.wasser.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> Omar Lakkis schrieb:
> > Using system() is theer a way to make the R interpreter not wait for
> > the command to finish?
> 
> system("cmd", wait=FALSE)
> 
> see ?system in online help.
> 


Coincidentially I recently posted on r-devel a note pointing out that
system is not the same on all operating systems.
https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2005-September/034539.html

In particular, wait= is available on Windows but not on UNIX.
On UNIX you could & in the usual way.