R v2.13.2 - Cannot find Rcmd on path?
Well, I just mean to give the user an option during installation -- like you did in Rtools. I have decided not to argue on this issue any more. Thanks a lot anyway! Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
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 -- Yihui Xie<xieyihui at gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA