Brian, how do I remove the relevant old Registry entries? Thank you! Dimitri
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote: > On 25/04/2013 14:00, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> On 13-04-25 8:33 AM, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote: >> >>> Hello! >>> >>> I have Windows 7 Enterprise and two versions of R installed: 2.15.3 and >>> 3.0.0. >>> Before I had R 3.0 I made it a setting that all .RData files - when I >>> double-click on them - were opened by R 2.15.3. >>> Now I want them to be opened by R 3.0 instead of R 2.15.3 (but I don't >>> want >>> to remove R 2.15.3. yet). >>> >>> I right-click on some .RData file, select "Open with" - "Choose default >>> program" and then click on "Browse". >>> >>> I browse to the folder where my R 3.0 is installed, then to the folder >>> "bin", then to the folder "x64" and select "Rgui.exe". >>> However, when R opens - or after I shut R down and then double-click on >>> some .RData file and R opens, it is again R 2.15.3, not R3.0. >>> >>> What am I doing wrong? >>> >>> Of course, when I open R 3.0 directly, then it opens no problem. >>> >> >> This is really a question about Windows 7, not about R, but I would >> guess you aren't telling it to make your choice permanent, or perhaps >> you are not allowed by your administrator to make permanent changes to >> file associations. You should ask for local help. >> > > We've encountered this for our student accounts, and think it is a bug in > Windows 7. If you remove the relevant old Registry entries first it should > work. > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~**ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/> > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > -- Dimitri Liakhovitski [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
