From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Wed May  4 17:21:50 2011
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 11:21:50 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Wishlist: write R's bin path to the PATH variable and
 remove the version string in the installation dir under Windows
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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
> If I am already able to open R, there is no need to post the request
> here. I want to be able to run R without knowing where it is from
> another software package. Your batch files fit in this purpose, and
> the only problem is it is a little bit slower since it takes time to
> look for R in the system via several approaches.
>

Not on my laptop (which is not particularly powerful).   Rgui.bat
brings up R nearly instantaneously.

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[Rd] Wishlist: write R's bin path to the PATH variable and remove the version string in the installation dir under Windows
Gabor Grothendieck