Powerful and Reliable Tools for Running System Commands in R R package sys version 3.4.3 Drop-in replacements for the base system2() function with fine control and consistent behavior across platforms. Supports clean interruption, timeout, background tasks, and streaming STDIN / STDOUT / STDERR over binary or text connections. Arguments on Windows automatically get encoded and quoted to work on different locales. Software Suggests: unix (>= 1.4), spelling, testthat Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms@gmail.com> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Jeroen Ooms [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4035-0289>), Gábor Csárdi [ctb] MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sys/LICENSE) 2024-10-04 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sys doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.sys en-US