You are getting the correct version. R is using the 8.3 version of the path.
MS DOS often can't handle long MS Windows pathnames, particularly with
blank space characters.
MS therefore provides an 8.3 equivalent for all long names.
C:\>dir /x prog*
dir /x prog*
Volume in drive C has no label.
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Hi Claire,
In Unix (linux) the 'which' command is documented as searching for the
command according to the PATH environment variable.
The different results from
$ which
and
> Sys.which()
would point to the fact that the PATH variable is different in the two
cases.
Compare:
$ echo $PATH
versus
Sy
Hi all,
I am having a problem in R where R is finding an old non existent version of
miktex rather than the new version. This occurs despite having set the path to
the correct location.
For example in bash if I look for the location of pdflatex:
$ which pdflatex
/c/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/mik
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