On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Just curious: how often do you use the Windows find command? We have put >>> instructions in place for people to run the install process with a renamed >>> Rtools find command (which I think is the only conflict). The issue is that >>> more users who want to use the command line commands are familiar with the >>> Unix variant (which came first, by the way) than the Windows one, so >>> renaming the Rtools one would cause trouble for more people. >> >> Its not just find - its also sort. And really R has no business >> clobbering built in Windows commands. This is just wrong and really >> causes anyone who does any significant amount of Windows batch >> programming (or uses batch programs of any complexity) endless >> problems. > > Which is presumably why Rtools doesn't modify the path by default. > > Better solutions (e.g. Rstudio and devtools) temporarily set the path > on when you're calling R CMD *.
I am well aware of the various kludges to address this including my own batchfiles ( http://batchfiles.googlecode.com ) which handles this by temporarily changing the path as well; however, the real problem is that Rtools does not play nice with Windows and that needs to be addressed directly. -- 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