On 24 Oct 2014, at 15:03 , Simon Urbanek <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> I think it's better without so it is inherited implicitly, i.e.
> system(paste0("PATH=",shQuote(Sys.getenv("PATH"))," which pdflatex"))
OK, if it works, it works. The thing that worried me slightly is that standard
unix logic is that
FOO=bar baz
sets FOO in the environment of baz, and it was not obvious to me that setting
PATH= affects the _shell_ while it is looking for baz. (This might be
documented somewhere in POSIX?).
-pd
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