Well, I just mean to give the user an option during installation -- like you did in Rtools. I have decided not to argue on this issue any more. Thanks a lot anyway!
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11-11-13 1:15 PM, Yihui Xie wrote: >> >> I remember I was torn into pieces a few months back when I made a >> wishlist here that R adds its bin path to PATH on Windows during >> installation. People had tons of reasons of objection. Although I do >> not use these batchfiles (usually I do not actually use Windows), I >> see there is a motivation behind them: there needs to be an easy way >> for Windows users to use R in command line (e.g. R CMD build...). You >> may argue that it is easy to understand PATH and modify it manually, >> and I will say nothing but "thank" Windows again. Sorry this seems to >> be off-topic. > > I don't remember any rending and tearing, but I do remember objections to > modifying the path during installation. I wouldn't want to write code to do > that, because it's hard: > > - Most people don't want to put R first, because it may hide something > important. > > - Putting it last won't work if an earlier version is already there. > > So you need to examine the path and correct it, an automatic change is > unlikely to be successful. > > But if you want to write code to do that, just go ahead and do it. Put it > in a package, even. > > Duncan Murdoch > >> >> Regards, >> Yihui >> -- >> Yihui Xie<xieyi...@gmail.com> >> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name >> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University >> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA >> ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
