If you can assume its on your path then try this:
pth - sapply(strsplit(Sys.getenv(PATH), ;), function(x)
file.path(x, python.exe, fsep = \\))
pth[file.exists(pth)][1]
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Carlos J. Gil
Bellostac...@datanalytics.com wrote:
Hello,
I have been unsuccessfully
I actually have the same question, about ant. I assume this would be
what the SystemRequirements field in a package DESCRIPTION is for, but
at the moment it seems unused. Is there a plan about this ?
Romain
On 06/27/2009 05:44 PM, Carlos J. Gil Bellosta wrote:
Hello,
I have been
You can also try to find Python on Windows machines by
reading the registry using the R readRegistry function (added
sometime around R 2.7.0, I think). You can't count on the
information being there, but it often is, depending on how
Python was installed.
Using the registry seems to work better
I think that most python installations won't have a
registry key set. I have python 2.6 and 2.5 on my
machine but searching the registry found no
occurrence of the string python. At least the path method
has the advantage that if its not set then the user
only has to modify the path whereas if
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Gabor
Grothendieckggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote:
I think that most python installations won't have a
registry key set. I have python 2.6 and 2.5 on my
machine but searching the registry found no
occurrence of the string python. At least the path method
The
