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

[Martyn Byng]

Hi,

Thanks for the help.

I have now sorted out the issue.

Somehow the text "C:\Progra~1\R\R-2.14.0\bin\x64\R" had got added to the end of an environment variable called "comspec".

Removing the extraneous text solved the problem - so the only mystery now is how I managed to paste the text into the environment variable - time to go home I think :)

Cheers

Martyn

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Wiley [mailto:jwiley.psych at gmail.com] 
Sent: 14 November 2011 18:17
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,

I would not expect you to need directories besides Rversion\bin\x64.
That is all I normally have in my path...perhaps because I do a
complete install?

I do not really know how or why it works, so I do not have any great
insight---just my experience.  Perhaps someone else will chime in with
more definitive advice.

Best,

Josh


On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Martyn Byng <Martyn.Byng at nag.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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