Re: [Rd] Alternative for wildcard gnu extension in Makevars

2015-05-19 Thread Jan van der Laan
On 13-05-15 19:45, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 13 May 2015 at 10:10, Kevin Ushey wrote: | One other solution that's only a little crazy: you could have a R | function within your package that generates the appropriate (portable) | Makevars, and within the package `configure` script call that |

Re: [Rd] How best to get around shadowing of executables by system()'s prepending of directories to Windows' PATH?

2015-05-19 Thread Roebuck,Paul L
This is the code I use in my 'SuperCurve' R-Forge package: ##- ## Merge output graphs with source tiff file, save it as JPG file .mergeGraphsAndImage <- function(antibody, prefix,

Re: [Rd] How best to get around shadowing of executables by system()'s prepending of directories to Windows' PATH?

2015-05-19 Thread Josh O'Brien
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Josh O'Brien wrote: > My question: > > On Windows, R's system() command prepends several directories to those > in the Windows Path variable. > > From ?system > > The search path for 'command' may be system-dependent: it will > include the R 'bin' direct