R v2.13.2 - Cannot find Rcmd on path?
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 2011/11/13 Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
On 13.11.2011 17:29, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Hardy Griesbauer <hgriesbauer at 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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