Re: [R] Fwd: Opening R in 64-bit version by default

2011-05-28 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Fri, 27 May 2011, David Winsemius wrote: On May 27, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: but really, it's just a bug. If you manually change that registry key, things are fine. If you ask Windows dialogs to do it for you, it fails. Most people pay infinitely more to Microsoft

Re: [R] Fwd: Opening R in 64-bit version by default

2011-05-27 Thread David Winsemius
On May 27, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: but really, it's just a bug. If you manually change that registry key, things are fine. If you ask Windows dialogs to do it for you, it fails. Most people pay infinitely more to Microsoft for Windows than they pay to R Core for R.

Re: [R] Fwd: Opening R in 64-bit version by default

2011-05-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-05-27 8:20 PM, John C Frain wrote: I have checked my second proposal using Windows 7 and Duncan is correct in saying that it will not work .r and .Rdata files were not associated to any version of R in my set up. On my system .r files are associated to the editor that I am using at any pa

Re: [R] Fwd: Opening R in 64-bit version by default

2011-05-27 Thread John C Frain
I have checked my second proposal using Windows 7 and Duncan is correct in saying that it will not work .r and .Rdata files were not associated to any version of R in my set up. On my system .r files are associated to the editor that I am using at any particular time. Currently this is either rS

Re: [R] Fwd: Opening R in 64-bit version by default

2011-05-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 25/05/2011 5:43 PM, John C Frain wrote: I have no problems configuring .r files to start in Emacs or RStudio and then use Emacs or RStudio to call the required version of R. You might check when you open with other from Windows Explorer that the check box "Always open with this program is tic

Re: [R] Fwd: Opening R in 64-bit version by default

2011-05-25 Thread John C Frain
I have no problems configuring .r files to start in Emacs or RStudio and then use Emacs or RStudio to call the required version of R. You might check when you open with other from Windows Explorer that the check box "Always open with this program is ticked. If you are using Windows 7 you can set

[R] Fwd: Opening R in 64-bit version by default

2011-05-24 Thread Michael Sumner
When you installed R there should be shortcuts on your desktop, or under /R/ in the start menu unless you opted for the installation to not create those. Click (or double-click) the one that has a name like "R x64 2.13.0" - the x64 indicates that the shortcut is for the 64-bit R. You won't have th