Re: [R] Problem Invoking System Commands from R

2014-10-11 Thread Matt Borkowski
I appreciate the feedback. 1) The paths are properly set...I only wonder if the spaces in the path to wget.exe are problematic for R. The full path (C:\\Program Files (x86)\\GnuWin32\\bin) is properly included in the return list for Sys.getenv("PATH"). Sys.which("wget") returns: >"C:\\PROGRA~2

Re: [R] Problem Invoking System Commands from R

2014-10-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Please do follow the posting guide and not sent HTML: it gets mangled. There are two issues here: 1) Paths. Use Sys.which("wget") to see if the command is on your path. I suspect it is not, and you need to set the path when running R in the same way as is done for your shell. Compare the se

[R] Problem Invoking System Commands from R

2014-10-10 Thread Matt Borkowski
Hello, First please keep in mind I am not a programmer and know very little about R. I am running the 64bit version of R on a Windows 8.1 machine. I am trying to run a script (which I have successfully run in the past) to download some weather data from a NOAA ftp site. When I attempt to run the