Re: [R] R doesn't recognize R_HOME value

2012-07-26 Thread Kirk Fleming
I wanted to wrap this up, since I feel it's been resolved. R_HOME never did need to over-ridden by me, was not being over-ridden in spite of my attempts, and was never a factor during the long period when 'everything worked'. In fact, my entire ordeal was caused by removing a comment from the rpr

Re: [R] R doesn't recognize R_HOME value

2012-07-25 Thread Kirk Fleming
>From the beginning I'd set R_HOME from within the Advanced area of Control Panel, and never actually set it from within a shell. I'll take the advice given, however, and not set it to any value at all. I did feel this was an R question since things were working as expected until upgrading, then no

Re: [R] R doesn't recognize R_HOME value

2012-07-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 25/07/2012 09:14, peter dalgaard wrote: On Jul 25, 2012, at 07:58 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 24/07/2012 21:57, Kirk Fleming wrote: ??? Windows 7 is where I'm seeing the problem. The root problem: while I have R_HOME legitimately specified within Windows 7, and issuing 'set R_HOME' fro

Re: [R] R doesn't recognize R_HOME value

2012-07-25 Thread peter dalgaard
On Jul 25, 2012, at 07:58 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On 24/07/2012 21:57, Kirk Fleming wrote: >> ??? >> >> Windows 7 is where I'm seeing the problem. >> >> The root problem: while I have R_HOME legitimately specified within Windows >> 7, and issuing 'set R_HOME' from the command line returns

Re: [R] R doesn't recognize R_HOME value

2012-07-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 24/07/2012 21:57, Kirk Fleming wrote: ??? Windows 7 is where I'm seeing the problem. The root problem: while I have R_HOME legitimately specified within Windows 7, and issuing 'set R_HOME' from the command line returns exactly the path I've specified, doing a Sys.getenv('R_HOME') from R retu

Re: [R] R doesn't recognize R_HOME value

2012-07-24 Thread Jeff Newmiller
You are asking us how your operating system works, but this list is about R. The key thing you appear to not understand is that environment variables are local to each process, and default environment variables are received from the process that started any given process. I ask you to go study

Re: [R] R doesn't recognize R_HOME value

2012-07-24 Thread Kirk Fleming
??? Windows 7 is where I'm seeing the problem. The root problem: while I have R_HOME legitimately specified within Windows 7, and issuing 'set R_HOME' from the command line returns exactly the path I've specified, doing a Sys.getenv('R_HOME') from R returns a completely different path. I ask, "W

Re: [R] R doesn't recognize R_HOME value

2012-07-24 Thread John Kane
Can we have a Window subset of fortunes? John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -Original Message- > From: kirkrflem...@hotmail.com > Sent: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:06:48 -0700 (PDT) > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] R doesn't recognize R_HOME value > I do

[R] R doesn't recognize R_HOME value

2012-07-23 Thread Kirk Fleming
Upgraded to 2.15.1 from 2.15.0 this morning, on Windows 7. I'm setting R_HOME in Control Panel, and before the upgrade, 2.15.0 recognized the value with no problems and would use it to find rprofile.site, etc. Now, after upgrade, neither .0 nor .1 recognize it at all. From the cmd line, Windows ind