[R] Problem calling R from within perl script on Windows

[Erik Iverson]

Someone with more Windows and/or Perl experience will be of more use, 
but guessing here:

1) Try calling system with a program that echoes the path, perhaps the 
system command is not using the same path variable as you think.

2) specify the full path to R (using proper escaping of backslashes 
and/or spaces as necessary), and see if that helps at all.


Barry Hall wrote:
> I need to call R from within a Perl script.  I do so using a system call like
> this:
> @args = ('R --vanilla --quiet --file=Rblock'); 
> system(@args) == 0 or die "system @args failed: $!";
> 
> The script works perfectly when run in Mac OSX or Linux.  In Windows XP it
> fails with the message " 'R' is not recognized as an internal or external
> command, operable program or batch file".
> 
> To ensure that R was properly installed and that the environment variable
> "path" was correctly set, I executed the same command (R --vanilla --quiet
> --file=Rblock) from the command line and it worked perfectly; i.e. R ran
> with the expected behavior.
> 
> Similar system calls to other external programs, e.g.
> @args = ('Notepad'); 
> system(@args) == 0 or die "system @args failed: $!";
> work perfectly.
> 
> Is there any obvious reason that this particular call works from the command
> line but not from within a perl script?
> 
> Thanks for any assistance