From sfalcon at fhcrc.org  Thu May 18 05:29:01 2006
From: sfalcon at fhcrc.org (Seth Falcon)
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 20:29:01 -0700
Subject: [Rd] 'R CMD config' doesn't work on Windows
In-Reply-To: <446BD7D6.1070702@stats.uwo.ca> (Duncan Murdoch's message of "Wed,
	17 May 2006 22:11:34 -0400")
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	<446B960B.6000204@fhcrc.org> <m2psiccoc1.fsf@ziti.fhcrc.org>
	<446BD7D6.1070702@stats.uwo.ca>
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Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> writes:
> What is "config"?  

    Usage: R CMD config [options] [VAR]
    
    Get the value of a basic R configure variable VAR which must be
    among those listed in the 'Variables' section below, or the header
    and library flags necessary for linking against R.

> On Windows, it's assumed to be a Perl script stored in RHOME/bin and
> as the message says, there's no such thing.

I guess this is a feature request then :-(
Any Perl experts keen on translating the shell script that does R CMD
config?  I assume that is more or less what would be required.



[Rd] 'R CMD config' doesn't work on Windows
Seth Falcon