read.fwf, perl on win

here is the version information.
one of the problems i noticed is that
libraries seem to be different.
i had an error because
perl called 
getopt.pl,
and the library module was called
getopts.pl

since i changed my path so the official perl
from www.perl.org is found first,
things work.



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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Erich Neuwirth wrote:

i just used read.fwf
(which calls perl)
and i noticed something.

i also have mat;lab installed on this machine,
and matlab also installs a version of perl,
but a different one.
additionally, matlab puts its bin directory in the system
path. so, if one does not canerully set the path,
r will call the matlab verion of perl,
and things won't work.

That's horrible! There is an official current Perl, and that
works for R, so I presume that Matlab has an outdated one (Perl 4 ?)
Do you know what version Matlab uses?

One thing we can do is to put a require 5.001; or whatever in the
script.

This will apply on binary Unix distributions too, I assume.

if anybody is collection a list of pitfalls,
this probably should go there.

With n packages there seem to be n^2 interactions.

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