On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > The issue is compatibility with other Windows programs. /path/to/file works > in lots of Windows programs, and is interpreted relative to the current > drive. In the common situation where the user only has one partition which > is mounted as C:, it works (as long as they didn't switch to a CD or USB > drive).
In particular, it does not work on my system where I need to run under two OSes, Vista64 on C: and WinXP on D:, with common development on E: . I had originally intended to work entirely on E: and mount E:/ as /, which is what you need to get Cygwin to return /path/to/file for working files on E: . But Cygwin does not handle permissions on a Vista NTFS file system well enough. Latchezar (Lucho) Dimitrov wrote > 5. AFAIK 64-bit R on your favorite Windows is far far away (even Windows > is not close enough although it's getting there) and I'd like to see > those above (and enjoy watching them) when Windows is not enough, e.g., > microarray analysis/BioConductor. That's just not true. There have been reports of 64-bit R ports to Windows and many people are running 64-bit Windows on servers and some on desktops (including me). A MinGW-based 64-bit R for Windows is under active development (which is why I have Vista64 installed). This is even covered in the rw-FAQ (Q8.1, and yes that is a file with numbered TOC). What seems 'far, far away' is something like Cygwin for 64-bit Windows. (I saw on a Cygwin list that RedHat wanted $$$$$ to do it, for too many $$$$$ for the potential customers.) The 32-bit version is said to work under the WOW 32-bit emulation layer but many of us find it flaky. Personally I use Linux (the main OS on the machine I mention above) and Solaris: however many R users (quite possibly the substantial majority of all R users even excluding student usage) want a native Windows version. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, 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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
