On 11-11-13 1:15 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
I remember I was torn into pieces a few months back when I made a
wishlist here that R adds its bin path to PATH on Windows during
installation. People had tons of reasons of objection. Although I do
not use these batchfiles (usually I do not actually use Windows), I
see there is a motivation behind them: there needs to be an easy way
for Windows users to use R in command line (e.g. R CMD build...). You
may argue that it is easy to understand PATH and modify it manually,
and I will say nothing but "thank" Windows again. Sorry this seems to
be off-topic.
I don't remember any rending and tearing, but I do remember objections
to modifying the path during installation. I wouldn't want to write
code to do that, because it's hard:
- Most people don't want to put R first, because it may hide something
important.
- Putting it last won't work if an earlier version is already there.
So you need to examine the path and correct it, an automatic change is
unlikely to be successful.
But if you want to write code to do that, just go ahead and do it. Put
it in a package, even.
Duncan Murdoch
Regards,
Yihui
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2011/11/13 Uwe Ligges<lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
On 13.11.2011 17:29, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Hardy Griesbauer
<hgriesba...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I recently updated to R version 2.13.2. With R version 2.10.0, I often
created and installed R packages, however, I cannot do this since
updating.
In other words, when I type in Rcmd build -binary PACKAGENAME I receive
an
error message: "Rcmd is not recognized as an internal...". I suspect
that
this is because Rcmd.exe is no longer installed in the bin folder, but
rather, in the x64 folder within bin. Please help!
What I've done so far:
1) Downloaded and installed the latest version of Rtools (as of
October
21, 2011).
2) During installation of Rtools, I included the following in the
path:
C:\Progra~1\R\R-2.13.2\bin\x64 and confirmed that this is on the path.
3) Read every help manual I can find, but I can't seem to locate the
answer to this problem.
Other information:
R version 2.13.2 (2011-09-30)
Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
My windows version: Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1 64-bit OS.
There is a batch command Rcmd.bat at http://batchfiles.googlecode.com
that when run will find R using the registry and then run the
appropriate Rcmd.exe so that you don't need to change your path or any
other environment variable.
Its a self contained .bat file so just place it anywhere on your
existing path. At the Windows console this command will show you your
path: path
Now try
Rcmd.bat build ...whatever...
If your path is not already set to find Rcmd.exe then Rcmd.bat can be
abbreviated to just Rcmd in the above line.
I wonder again and again why you try to obfuscate things by your layer of
non portable batchfiles. Typing the path correctly and according to the
syntax is required in both cases anyway.
Best,
Uwe
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