Thanks. Sys.putenv did work, however this has to be set every time I start R.
gs is on my path and works fine under Unix, but I get the following error when running bitmap (without setting R_GSCMD first): /bin/sh: line 1: gs: command not found I assume the problem is related to the fact that I am using the csh shell, while the new Mac OS X default shell is now bash. So I guess my .csh path settings are ignored by R calling bash. I solved the problem by adding my R_GSCMD settings to the Renviron file (R_GSCMD=${RGSCMD-'/sw/bin/gs'} in my case). Hope this helps anyone with the same problem. Thanks again for your help! Andreas At 12:51 +0100 20.10.2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >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 -- PLEASE NOTE MY NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Andreas Zankl, MD Division of Molecular Pediatrics Clinique Infantile 02/50 CHUV Avenue Pierre Decker 2 CH-1011 Lausanne Switzerland Phone: +41-21-3143778 Fax: +41-21-3143546 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ 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