Ross Boylan wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 10:49 +0100, Uwe Ligges wrote: > >>Ross Boylan wrote: > > .... > >>>P.S. Previous list postings advised that R CMD install was a better way >>>to produce binaries than R CMD build --binary. The former command >>>doesn't seem to have any options for making binaries; has that facility >>>been removed? >> >>No, you can use: >> >>R CMD INSTALL --build >> >> >>Uwe Ligges > > I was looking at R CMD install --help. I didn't realize the upper lower > case versions of install differed. That's a little confusing.
That's Unix for you. What R CMD does on Unix is to set up several environment variables, then runs the command. So something like R CMD ls will run the ls command. On Windows, the search is limited to the R bin directory, which seems more reasonable to me. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
