From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri Oct 10 14:10:33 2003
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Fri Oct 10 14:09:36 2003
Subject: [Rd] Could the Windows installer edit PATH?
In-Reply-To: <004d01c38f1c$6dcc2ee0$0202a8c0@bumblebee>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310101306300.5365-100000@gannet.stats>

Why do you need to edit PATH?  I never have the rw10xx/bin directory in my 
Desktop PATH.  I do set the PATH in a terminal window when working with R, 
but I do that via the shell startup options (.tcshrc in my case).

It is I believe possible to get the installer to do this, but it may well 
not be allowed: our students are not allowed to set it (denied by a 
Windows profile setting).

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Chris Jackson wrote:

> I have just diligently upgraded my R installation for Windows XP Pro to
> 1.8.0.  As an ESS user and R package builder, part of this upgrade process
> for me always involves editing the PATH environment variable by hand to
> update the location of the R bin directory.
> 
> Would it be possible or desirable for the R for Windows
> installer/uninstaller to optionally edit the PATH itself? (as, for example,
> the Activestate Perl installer has an option to update the PATH with the
> Perl bin directory).

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[Rd] Could the Windows installer edit PATH?
Prof Brian Ripley