[Rd] Wish list

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 1/1/2007 7:17 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>> Anyone who uses batch files will use it quite a bit.  It certainly causes
>>> me problems on an ongoing basis and is an unacceptable conflict in
>>> my opinion.
>> If you're using batch files, the fix I suggested is trivial for you.
> 
> The batch files could come from other programs you
> are using which one does not really want to have
> to figure them out and modify them.  

You don't need to modify any other batch files, you just need to create 
a new batch file named "R.bat" as a wrapper for R.  I forget batch file 
syntax, so I'm sure this is wrong, but it would look something like this:

SAVEPATH=%PATH%
PATH=Rtools\bin;R\bin;...
R %1 %2 ...
PATH=%SAVEPATH%

 > In any case,
 > R should not be written in
 > a way which conflicts with system utilities.

I'd guess the "find" that R uses predates the one that Microsoft 
invented.  Think of the R toolset as an attempt to correct the mistakes 
that Microsoft made, by making the environment more Unix-like.

Duncan Murdoch