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POSIX System Utilities

v1.6.0 · Apr 23, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Bindings to system utilities found in most Unix systems such as POSIX functions which are not part of the Standard C Library.

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r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc OK
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r-patched-linux-x86_64 OK
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Check History

OK 10 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 29, 2026
ERROR 10 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 23, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

tests

Running ‘testthat.R’ [14s/24s]
Running the tests in ‘tests/testthat.R’ failed.
Complete output:
  > library(testthat)
  > 
  > test_check("unix")
  Loading required package: unix
  
  Saving _problems/test-forking-54.R
  
  [ FAIL 1 | WARN 0 | SKIP 5
...[truncated]...
rk(tryCatch(blabla(), error = identity))` to inherit from "character".
  Actual inheritance: "functionNotFoundError"/"objectNotFoundError"/"error"/"condition"
  
  [ FAIL 1 | WARN 0 | SKIP 5 | PASS 334 ]
  Error:
  ! Test failures.
  Execution halted
OK 11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Reverse Dependencies (5)

depends

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies RAppArmor Ryacas opencpu projpred sys unix

Version History

15 tracked
updated 1.6.0 ← 1.5.9 diff Apr 23, 2026
new 1.5.9 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.5.9 ← 1.5.8 diff Oct 3, 2024
updated 1.5.8 ← 1.5.7 diff May 13, 2024
updated 1.5.7 ← 1.5.6 diff Feb 21, 2024
updated 1.5.6 ← 1.5.5 diff Dec 4, 2023
updated 1.5.5 ← 1.5.4 diff Oct 17, 2022
updated 1.5.4 ← 1.5.3 diff Nov 15, 2021
updated 1.5.3 ← 1.5.2 diff Aug 15, 2021
updated 1.5.2 ← 1.5.1 diff Dec 10, 2020
updated 1.5.1 ← 1.5 diff Jan 30, 2020
updated 1.5 ← 1.4 diff Feb 23, 2019
updated 1.4 ← 1.3 diff Feb 21, 2019
updated 1.3 ← 1.0 diff Apr 20, 2017
new 1.0 Apr 2, 2017