From chris.jackson at imperial.ac.uk  Fri Oct 10 12:51:15 2003
From: chris.jackson at imperial.ac.uk (Chris Jackson)
Date: Fri Oct 10 12:50:19 2003
Subject: [Rd] Could the Windows installer edit PATH?
Message-ID: <004d01c38f1c$6dcc2ee0$0202a8c0@bumblebee>

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).

Chris
-- 
Christopher Jackson <chris.jackson@imperial.ac.uk>, Research Associate,
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College
School of Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, tel. 020 759 43371


[Rd] Could the Windows installer edit PATH?
Chris Jackson