> The problem is that if you don't just use the PC for running R but use > it to run other programs too then any program and that utilizes > Windows batch scripts making use of find.exe or sort.exe likely won't > work if Rtools is on your path. > > The fact that devtools, batchfiles and Rcpp have workarounds mitigates > it somewhat but the problem should be fixed so it works out-of-the-box > once and for all.
I guess I don't see the advantage of that approach (except perhaps for simplicity), compared to using the registry to store path information and then using environmental variables to set it when needed. It would be nice if Rtools didn't override existing windows executables, in the same way it would be nice if windows worked like linux out of the box. But since it doesn't, and since in general adding more and more directories to the path makes it more and more likely for some conflict to arise, I think Rtools current approach is very reasonable. Hadley -- Chief Scientist, RStudio http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
