>> Just curious: how often do you use the Windows find command? We have put >> instructions in place for people to run the install process with a renamed >> Rtools find command (which I think is the only conflict). The issue is that >> more users who want to use the command line commands are familiar with the >> Unix variant (which came first, by the way) than the Windows one, so >> renaming the Rtools one would cause trouble for more people. > > Its not just find - its also sort. And really R has no business > clobbering built in Windows commands. This is just wrong and really > causes anyone who does any significant amount of Windows batch > programming (or uses batch programs of any complexity) endless > problems.
Which is presumably why Rtools doesn't modify the path by default. Better solutions (e.g. Rstudio and devtools) temporarily set the path on when you're calling R CMD *. Hadley -- Chief Scientist, RStudio http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
