Re: [Rd] Lack of consistent cross-platform behaviour of tools:::buildVignettes()

2010-09-25 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi, In current R-alpha (r52991), consistent cross-platform behavior has been restored, thanks! That is, on both Unix and Windows, ${R_HOME}/bin/R doesn't add variables to the environment, but ${R_HOME}/bin/R CMD does. Is there any reason why ${R_HOME}/bin/R couldn't add those variables to the en

[Rd] Lack of consistent cross-platform behaviour of tools:::buildVignettes()

2010-09-15 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi, On both Unix and Windows there is a mechanism to add variables to the environment when R is started. I noticed that, on Unix, this mechanism is not used when R is started normally at the command line but only when it's started using the 'R CMD' syntax. One problem with this is some lack of co