[R] rd2dvi bug on windoze?

[Uwe Ligges]

Hiroyuki Kawakatsu wrote:

> hi,
> 
> can anyone confirm the following problem? when i do
> 
> dos> rcmd rd2dvi --pdf my-package-name

a) It's not "dos>", but the Windows command shell.
b) It's called Windows, not windoze
c) The script is called Rd2dvi.sh and in this case the command name 
(Rd2dvi) is case sensitive, hence use

   R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf my-package-name

Uwe Ligges


> i get
> 
> dos> Can't open perl script "c:\PROGRA~1\r\rw1091/bin/rd2dvi": No such file or directory
> 
> might the problem be in (double back slashes rather than forward slashes)
> 
> R-1.9.1\src\gnuwin32\front-ends\rcmdfn.c(251): strcat(cmd, RHome); strcat(cmd, "/bin/Rd2dvi.sh");
> 
> 
> 
>>version
> 
>          _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386, mingw32
> status
> major    1
> minor    9.1
> year     2004
> month    06
> day      21
> language R
> 
> @windoze xp sp1
> 
> h.
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