On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Andreas Zankl wrote: > The help file of the R bitmap function says that I have to set the > environment variable R_GSCMD to the path of my Ghostscript > installation.
Actually, it does not say that. It says you _can_ specify the path to your executable (not the installation) that way. It will work without doing so if the executable 'gs' (on a Unix-alike) is on your path, which it normally is on Unix-alikes. > How do I set this variable (either by commandline or in > R.app for Mac)? Sorry if this sounds like a very basic question, but > I could not find the answer anywhere else. ?Sys.putenv for how to do it from R. help.search("environment variable") got me there. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html