[R] unable to get "R CMD" to work as expected on a 64 bit windows machine

[Martyn Byng]

Hi Josh,

Thanks for that, which directory needs to be in the path?

There is a file called R.exe in 

C:\Program Files\R\R-2.14.0\bin
C:\Program Files\R\R-2.14.0\bin\x64
and
C:\Program Files\R\R-2.14.0\bin\i386

I currently have

C:\Program Files\R\R-2.14.0\bin\x64

in the path (which is, I'm guessing why "R CMD --help" works), do I need the others in the path as well, and if so, in what order?

Cheers

Martyn


-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Wiley [mailto:jwiley.psych at gmail.com] 
Sent: 14 November 2011 16:57
To: Martyn Byng
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] unable to get "R CMD" to work as expected on a 64 bit windows machine

Hi Martyn,

My guess is that you need to add the directory where R is located to
your Windows PATH variable.  It sounds like Windows just doesn't know
where to find R.

HTH,

Josh

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Martyn Byng <Martyn.Byng at nag.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just downloaded and installed R 2.14.0 using the windows binary on
> a 64bit windows machine running windows 7.
>
> Rterm / RGui work as expected, as does
>
> R CMD --help
>
> and
>
> R CMD BATCH --help
>
> however
>
> R CMD check --help
>
> returns no information and I seem to be unable to check a package.
>
> Various other options also seem to not be working as expected, i.e.
>
> R CMD REMOVE aa
>
> (where aa is just a garbage name) appears to do nothing (whereas the
> same command on a 32bit windows machine returns with a message that
> package aa does not exist.)
>
> Just invoking R on the command line appears to do nothing on 64 bit
> windows as opposed to starting a command line version of R (ala Rterm)
> on 32 bit windows.
>
> Any pointers as to what I've done wrong during the installation would be
> appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martyn
>
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
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