[R] Opening R in 64-bit version by default

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 24/05/2011 1:27 PM, Josh Browning wrote:
> Oh, of course, sorry.  I'm running Windows 7.  Thanks!

Your question is probably a question for Microsoft.  Why doesn't 
whatever you did work?

Someone here might be able to help if you describe what you did.  I just 
tried "Open with..." and selected Rgui.exe from the bin/x64 directory, 
and that failed.   A couple of other things I tried worked:

1.  Edit the registry key

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\RWorkspace\shell\open\command

2.  Rename the bin/x64/Rgui.exe file to something else, and ask to open 
with that.

Duncan Murdoch
> Josh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsemius at comcast.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 11:25 AM
> To: Josh Browning
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Opening R in 64-bit version by default
>
>
> On May 24, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Josh Browning wrote:
>
> >  Hi Everyone,
> >
> >  This may be a dumb question, but I can't seem to figure it out.  I
> >  have
> >  32 and 64 bit versions of R installed on my machine, and I'd really
> >  like
> >  the 64-bit version to be the default (i.e. what opens when I open up a
> >  workspace).  I've tried right-clicking on the workspace and setting
> >  the
> >  default option as the 64 bit version, but it still opens the workspace
> >  in 32-bit.  Am I missing something here?  Any help would be greatly
> >  appreciated!
>
> Shirley, you don't expect us to read your mind. OS?
>
> --
> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
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