On 1/26/2009 7:04 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
Dieter Menne wrote:
Duncan Murdoch <murdoch <at> stats.uwo.ca> writes:
I don't know what's going wrong on your system. I added a browser()
call to the .onLoad function in R/windows/FirstLib.R on my system, and I
see it successfully gets JAVA_HOME from the registry. It gets a number
of other files, then adds these paths to my PATH variable. I've used
strsplit() to separate them for viewing.
[14] "C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre1.6.0_07\\bin\\client"
[15] "C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre1.6.0_07/bin"
[16] "C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre1.6.0_07/bin/client"
[17] "C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre1.6.0_07/jre/bin/client"
I believe LoadLibrary needs paths to be specified with backslashes, so
you might be able to fix things on your system by changing the file.path
calls in that function to use fsep="\\" instead of the default "/".
Thanks for your help.
I think I tracked it down. It has nothing to do with rJava, but
rather with Sys.getenv(). Looks like this function truncates around 1024
characters, and my path is very long due to Visual Studio + Delphi
+ SQL Server.
See the printout below. Note that the last entry should read \\Delphi,
and that more entries are coming in my system path.
This also explains why only some people have the problem.
No workaround found yet. I keep this message here for other people who
have the problem, but possibly this is more for R-devel to be continued.
Yes, I've moved this to R-devel.
If this is an R problem, it's in Sys.setenv: putting a very long string
and then starting a shell shows the truncated string, but within the
shell it's possible to set a much longer one.
However, I don't see a fixed buffer size in the internal R code, so this
looks like a problem in the run-time. The docs on MSDN say that the
system maintains separate user environment variables and system
environment variables, and the system ones are limited to 1024
characters: so this could be our problem. Our _wputenv call may be
trying to set a system environment variable, and having it truncated.
(There's also an overall limit of 32767 chars for all environment
variables, but I'd guess you're hitting the 1024 byte limit.)
The docs also say there's a SetEnvironmentVariable API function as of
Win2k, which is our minimal platform these days, so maybe switching to
that would solve the problem. I'll give it a try, but probably not today.
One more followup: This article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906469
says that this is a problem in Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003,
and provides a fix for those systems.
Duncan Murdoch
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