Re: [Rd] Telling Windows how to find DLL's from R?

2010-07-13 Thread Thomas Baier
Dominick, Dominick Samperi wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.comwrote: On 09/07/2010 2:38 PM, Dominick Samperi wrote: Is it possible to set Windows' search path from within R, or to tell Windows how to find a DLL in some other way from R?

[Rd] Telling Windows how to find DLL's from R?

2010-07-09 Thread Dominick Samperi
Is it possible to set Windows' search path from within R, or to tell Windows how to find a DLL in some other way from R? Specifically, if a package DLL depends on another DLL the normal requirement is that the second DLL be in the search path so Windows can find it (there are other tricks, but

Re: [Rd] Telling Windows how to find DLL's from R?

2010-07-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 09/07/2010 2:38 PM, Dominick Samperi wrote: Is it possible to set Windows' search path from within R, or to tell Windows how to find a DLL in some other way from R? Specifically, if a package DLL depends on another DLL the normal requirement is that the second DLL be in the search path so

Re: [Rd] Telling Windows how to find DLL's from R?

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Morgan
On 07/09/2010 11:38 AM, Dominick Samperi wrote: Is it possible to set Windows' search path from within R, or to tell Windows how to find a DLL in some other way from R? Specifically, if a package DLL depends on another DLL the normal requirement is that the second DLL be in the search path so

Re: [Rd] Telling Windows how to find DLL's from R?

2010-07-09 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.comwrote: On 09/07/2010 2:38 PM, Dominick Samperi wrote: Is it possible to set Windows' search path from within R, or to tell Windows how to find a DLL in some other way from R? Specifically, if a package DLL depends on

Re: [Rd] Telling Windows how to find DLL's from R?

2010-07-09 Thread Dominick Samperi
Thanks Duncan, Martin: Please ignore my remarks about top-level Windows context. I made a mistake. After correcting my mistake Duncan's suggestion worked, and the solution is very similar to what the DLLpath argument of dyn.load() does: Sys.setenv() can be used to edit PATH so that Windows finds