[Rd] (PR#11484) On WinXP, R CMD config needs sh (and breaks without it)

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Note that if you place Rcmd.bat andor R.bat from
  http://batchfiles.googlecode.com
anywhere in your path and install the latest rtools from
  http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/
then you don't have to change your PATH.

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:40 AM,  <lgautier at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/5/19 Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
>> Where is the bug here?  It also does on a Unix-alike.
>
> Then "R CMD config --help" could at least spit out an error stating
> what should be installed
> (rather than die with an execution error straight from the DOS).
>
> Setting an "sh" in the %Path% (sh coming from cygwin) does not seem to
> lead to something working
> under winXP (various error messages).
>
>
>> Anything involving R CMD potentially needs the Rtools set in the path.
>
> I guess that I have been lucky with the "potential" aspect of the
> requirements so far.
> Is there a documentation of what is needed by the respective R CMD flavors ?
>
>
>> R CMD config is primarily intended to be used in configure scripts in
>> packages.
>>
>> On Sun, 18 May 2008, lgautier at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Full_Name: Laurent Gautier
>>> Version: R-2.7.0patched (r45712)
>>> OS: WinXP
>>> Submission from: (NULL) (90.15.141.247)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On a WinXP box (that does not has "sh" in the %Path%,
>>> R CMD config appears to break:
>>>
>>> C:\>R CMD config
>>> 'sh' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>>> operable program or batch file.
>>>
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>>
>> --
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