Hi, Thanks for the help.
I have now sorted out the issue. Somehow the text "C:\Progra~1\R\R-2.14.0\bin\x64\R" had got added to the end of an environment variable called "comspec". Removing the extraneous text solved the problem - so the only mystery now is how I managed to paste the text into the environment variable - time to go home I think :) Cheers Martyn -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Wiley [mailto:jwiley.ps...@gmail.com] Sent: 14 November 2011 18:17 To: Martyn Byng Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] unable to get "R CMD" to work as expected on a 64 bit windows machine Hi Martyn, I would not expect you to need directories besides Rversion\bin\x64. That is all I normally have in my path...perhaps because I do a complete install? I do not really know how or why it works, so I do not have any great insight---just my experience. Perhaps someone else will chime in with more definitive advice. Best, Josh On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Martyn Byng <martyn.b...@nag.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Josh, > > Thanks for that, which directory needs to be in the path? > > There is a file called R.exe in > > C:\Program Files\R\R-2.14.0\bin > C:\Program Files\R\R-2.14.0\bin\x64 > and > C:\Program Files\R\R-2.14.0\bin\i386 > > I currently have > > C:\Program Files\R\R-2.14.0\bin\x64 > > in the path (which is, I'm guessing why "R CMD --help" works), do I need the > others in the path as well, and if so, in what order? > > Cheers > > Martyn > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua Wiley [mailto:jwiley.ps...@gmail.com] > Sent: 14 November 2011 16:57 > To: Martyn Byng > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] unable to get "R CMD" to work as expected on a 64 bit > windows machine > > Hi Martyn, > > My guess is that you need to add the directory where R is located to > your Windows PATH variable. It sounds like Windows just doesn't know > where to find R. > > HTH, > > Josh > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Martyn Byng <martyn.b...@nag.co.uk> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just downloaded and installed R 2.14.0 using the windows binary on >> a 64bit windows machine running windows 7. >> >> Rterm / RGui work as expected, as does >> >> R CMD --help >> >> and >> >> R CMD BATCH --help >> >> however >> >> R CMD check --help >> >> returns no information and I seem to be unable to check a package. >> >> Various other options also seem to not be working as expected, i.e. >> >> R CMD REMOVE aa >> >> (where aa is just a garbage name) appears to do nothing (whereas the >> same command on a 32bit windows machine returns with a message that >> package aa does not exist.) >> >> Just invoking R on the command line appears to do nothing on 64 bit >> windows as opposed to starting a command line version of R (ala Rterm) >> on 32 bit windows. >> >> Any pointers as to what I've done wrong during the installation would be >> appreciated. >> >> Cheers >> >> Martyn >> >> >>> sessionInfo() >> R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31) >> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) >> >> locale: >> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 >> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252 >> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 >> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C >> [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >> ________________________________________________________________________ >> The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England >> and Wales with company number 1249803. 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