R could care less about what is in PATH... there is however a difference
between Windows parsing PATH and how CMD lets you quote things interactively.
The whole point of PATH is to let you or R provide simple program names like
qpdf without knowing where they are... Windows takes over and looks
Dear Ivan (and list)
Using Ivan's advice I traced the problem to a difference of opinio
between Microsoft and R about paht names. I had mistakenly enclosed
parts of the names in "" which was fine for MS but not R. Sys.which()
was my saviour here.
Many thanks to Ivan for broadening my knowled
On Sun, 8 Oct 2023 16:47:41 +0100
Michael Dewey wrote:
> Following on from Ivan's advice I have now installed qpdf and
> Ghostview. I have checked that they are both on my path by typing
> their name at the command line and verifying they open.
> I then built the package with the --compress-vign
Following on from Ivan's advice I have now installed qpdf and Ghostview.
I have checked that they are both on my path by typing their name at the
command line and verifying they open. I then built the package with the
--compress-vignettes=both and then checked it with --as-cran I still get
a co
