[R] Prevent line truncation in system2() output

[Luiz Max Carvalho]

Sorry for that. It's Ubuntu 14.04.  I would like to avoid a temporary file
altogether, but if there is not other way...

Thanks,

Luiz

On 15 March 2015 at 20:14, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:

> You don't say which operating system you are using, but this sounds like
> it could easily be affected by your OS (even of in this case it isn't). My
> suggestion would be to use a temporary file.
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> On March 15, 2015 11:02:57 AM PDT, Luiz Max Carvalho <
> luizepidemiologia at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hey all,
> >
> >I'm developing an application that calls third party software using
> >system2(...,  stdout = TRUE) and then reads this using textConnection()
> >+
> > read.csv ().
> >
> >Problem is that sometimes the output is bigger than 8096 bytes and then
> >the
> >lines are split (from system2 documentation), what messes up what I
> >have
> >set up to read the output.
> >
> >Is there any way of preventing system2() from breaking the lines? I
> >think I
> >can work around this issue, but I'm looking for a cleaner solution for
> >the
> >time being.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Luiz
>
>


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Sciences,
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University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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