On 13-04-20 11:09 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
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.
It has been. You ignored it.
Duncan Murdoch
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