I need to run a bash command, but when you call system() the default shell is sh (see my sessionInfo below). I found the shell command ( http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISdidactique/Rhelp/library/base/html/shell.html) but it seems to be disappeared in current versions of R? I am running all this from R CMD BATCH with "system" calls to other R scripts.
For a little more info, I'm generating sphinx documents (a python documentation library) through R and need to use a python virtual environment. So I need to call system('source bin/activate'), but "source" isn't a recognized command in the sh shell... Any help is appreciated, Justin > sessionInfo() R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30) Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] graphics grDevices utils datasets stats grid methods base other attached packages: [1] ggplot2_0.9.0 reshape2_1.2.1 plyr_1.7.1 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] colorspace_1.1-1 dichromat_1.2-4 digest_0.5.1 MASS_7.3-16 memoise_0.1 munsell_0.3 [7] proto_0.3-9.2 RColorBrewer_1.0-5 scales_0.2.0 stringr_0.6 tools_2.15.0 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.