[R-pkg-team] Bug#919984: ITP: r-cran-sys -- Powerful and Reliable Tools for Running System Commands in GNU R

[Andreas Tille]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>

* Package name    : r-cran-sys
  Version         : 2.1
  Upstream Author : Jeroen Ooms, Gábor Csárdi
* URL             : https://cran.r-project.org/package=sys
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: GNU R
  Description     : Powerful and Reliable Tools for Running System Commands in GNU R
 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. On Unix platforms the
 package also provides functions for evaluating expressions inside a
 temporary fork. Such evaluations have no side effects on the main R
 process, and support reliable interrupts and timeouts. This provides the
 basis for a sandboxing mechanism.

Remark: This package is maintained by Debian R Packages Maintainers at
   https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-sys
This package is needed to upgrade r-cran-openssl to its latest upstream version.