I get the same style of path as Hadley. This is on Windows 7 Home Premium with SP1. I start R by clicking on the R-2.31.0 icon.
I'd assumed that it was a change that came with R-2.13.0! (On 32-bit Windows XP, which I have just checked, I do indeed get the 8.3 paths.) > R.home() [1] "C:/Programs/R/R-2.13.0" > sessionInfo() R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets [6] methods base John Maindonald email: john.maindon...@anu.edu.au phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549 Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194, John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27) Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200. http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm > From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> > Date: 29 June 2011 10:17:46 AM AEST > To: Hadley Wickham <had...@rice.edu> > Cc: Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org>, r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Small bug in install.packages? > > > On 28/06/2011 5:42 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >>> Isn't R.home() 8.3 path anyway? >> >> I don't think so: >> >>> R.home("bin") >> [1] "C:/Program Files/R/R-2.13.0/bin/i386" > > Weird. Like others, I see 8.3 pathnames. R gets those from a Windows call; > what version of Windows are you using? > > Duncan Murdoch > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
