On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29/04/2008 2:51 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > The use of the UNIX find command on Windows makes installation > > very troublesome and fragile. I wonder if you could include a > > find2 or somesuch with the tools and change the scripts to use that > > getting rid of find or use just use the Windows find command in the > > scripts. Or some other solution so that one does not have to have > > a non-Windows find on the PATH. > > > > Find isn't unique: there are lots of versions of make, and grep, and tar > that don't work, either. We've adopted a simple solution, and it works:
It only works if you are very careful and actually it doesn't work because it does not preserve Windows functionality for other programs. > when you're using the R tools, put them first on the path. That's not comparable because find comes with Windows whereas those other programs you mention are addons. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
