... and perhaps worth noting (again) is that one of the benefits of producing a repro ex is that it often reveals such bugs to the prospective poster, thus obviating the need to post.
-- Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:28 AM, stephen sefick <ssef...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Again, I apologize for not providing a reproducible example. There was a > small (but important) bug in my R code having nothing to do with system(), > this is now fixed, and everything is working as expected this morning. The > lesson for me is time to stop coding after 10 PM. Thank you for all of the > help. > kindest regards, > > Stephen > > On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Boris Steipe <boris.ste...@utoronto.ca> > wrote: > >> The "whatever information" would be the usual minimal reproducible example. >> >> Since you think your code works at the shell level, make up an example >> with a system call to "echo". >> Then state what you expect to happen and what happens instead. >> >> B. >> >> >> >> > On Apr 4, 2017, at 12:44 AM, stephen sefick <ssef...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Jeff, >> > >> > My apologies for not providing enough information. The perl code works as >> > expected at the shell (without calling it from R). I have tried the >> system >> > call inside of an ESS R session and at a the shell. Both of these produce >> > the unexpected result. I can provide whatever information that is needed. >> > kindest regards, >> > >> > Stephen >> > >> > On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 11:23 PM, Jeff Newmiller < >> jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> Sorry, RPsychic package not found. Please install package reprex, apply >> it >> >> to your problem and try again. Note that if this problem can only be >> >> produced from within a package then there is an R-package-devel mailing >> >> list that would be a more appropriate place to ask. Also, if the >> problem is >> >> actually in the perl code or in the shell (this seems likely to me) then >> >> you probably need to look even further afield for help. >> >> -- >> >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> >> >> On April 3, 2017 8:57:07 PM PDT, stephen sefick <ssef...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >> >>> >> >>> I am writing an R package, and I am using system() to call a perl >> >>> script. >> >>> The output of the perl script is correct except for "[A/B]" is output >> >>> as >> >>> "AB". Can someone explain this behavior. I would like to try and fix >> >>> this. >> >>> many thanks, >> >>> >> >>> Stephen Sefick >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so >> > little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make >> us >> > feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying >> little >> > problems of being mammals. >> > >> > -K. Mullis >> > >> > "A big computer, a complex algorithm and a long time does not equal >> > science." >> > >> > -Robert Gentleman >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> > 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. >> >> > > > -- > Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so > little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us > feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little > problems of being mammals. > > -K. Mullis > > "A big computer, a complex algorithm and a long time does not equal > science." > > -Robert Gentleman > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
