Thanks! But I'm sorry this is not what I wanted. I just hope we can call R as a command like we do under *nix -- this will make it easier for *other* software packages to find R.
BTW, for the cmd package: if we were "evil" enough, we can directly execute this in R to permanently set the PATH variable: system(paste('setx PATH "', normalizePath(R.home('bin')), ';', Sys.getenv('PATH'), '"', sep = '')) Nobody will feel comfortable with it, though. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Although I have some misgivings about this just to be sure we have all > based covered I have placed an R package called cmd in the batchfiles > download area (go to http://batchfiles.googlecode.com and click on > download tab). > > Install the package and then every time you wish to use R.exe, > Rscript.exe, etc. start up R and run > > library(cmd) > cmd32() # or cmd64() > > and it will spawn a Windows console session with the appropriate path > variable set. > > -- > Statistics & Software Consulting > GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. > tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP > email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel