[R] Moving Rterm.exe to another location

[Dennis Fisher]

Colleagues,

I have encountered the following situation in R (2.9.0) with Windows XP.

I have an application that calls Rterm.exe.  In certain situations,  
the application terminates but fails to close R.  Then, the next time  
that the application runs, there are replicated copies of R running -  
this slows the system.  One solution would be to kill any open  
versions of Rterm.exe each time the application terminates.  But, that  
would affect other legitimate copies of Rterm.

The solution to that problem is simple.  Instead of running Rterm.exe,  
I copy Rterm.exe to Rterm-nnnnn.exe, execute that version, then when  
the job is complete, I can specifically terminate that version using  
Window's taskkill command.

Unfortunately, I just encountered a new problem.  If the R folder has  
restricted privileges, it appears that I cannot copy Rterm.exe to the  
same folder.  So, I attempted a work-around, i.e., move the copy to  
another folder (e.g., Desktop).  However, this does not work - when  
the copy is in another location, it opens, then closes immediately.

So, my question is: is there some means to call Rterm.exe (I assume  
that the same would apply to R.exe) from a folder other the bin?

Dennis


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