This is already fixed: *please* don't send bug reports on obselete
versions of R, especially without checking the current NEWS file:
CHANGES IN R VERSION 1.6.2
...
o system(intern=TRUE) has an undocumented line length limit of
119 chars both on Unix and Windows. The limit is now 8096 and
documented. On Unix (only) every 120th character used to be
discarded.
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> system(..., intern=TRUE) splits long lines after 118th character and
> discards the 119th character
>
> > a <- paste(rep("a", 124), collapse="")
> > system(paste("echo", a), intern=TRUE)
> system(paste("echo", a), intern=TRUE)
> [1]
> "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" "aaaaa"
>
> >
>
> The result is a vector of length 2 and it should be that of 1.
>
> version
> _
> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch i686
> os linux-gnu
> system i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major 1
> minor 6.0
> year 2002
> month 10
> day 01
> language R
>
>
> Thanks,
> Vadim
>
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