check.linux.install: Check whether a given system command is installed (e.g, bash)

In NCmisc: Miscellaneous Functions for Creating Adaptive Functions and Scripts

Check whether a given system command is installed (e.g, bash)

Description

Tests whether a command is installed and callable by system(). Will return a warning if run on windows when linux.more=TRUE

Usage

check.linux.install(cmd = c("plink", "perl", "sed"), linux.mode = FALSE)

Arguments

cmd	character vector of commands to test
linux.mode	logical, alternate way of command testing that only works on linux and mac OS X, to turn this on, set to TRUE.

Value

returns true or false for each command in 'cmd'

Author(s)

Nicholas Cooper [e-mail]

Examples

check.linux.install("R") # should be standard
check.linux.install(c("perl","sed","fake-cmd"))

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