[FLR-list] Multiple Rbuilds active

[iago.mosqueira-sanchez at jrc.ec.europa.eu]

On 11/07/2011 09:54 PM, Hintzen, Niels wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Sorry for posting this question here, but wasn't in the mood to get flamed by Ripley.
> I was wondering, is it possible to have multiple Rtools installed under windows (7)?
>
> I've installed Rtools for 2.11.x and 2.12.x (and need to keep it for a while too) but at the same time want to install some packages from source in R2.13.x
>
> I had the idea to do this using R CMD INSTALL ...source... but my PATH refers to R2.11.x, not R2.13.x and rather not change my path all the time.
>
> Suggestions are more than welcome!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Niels
>

Hi,

I tried setting up such a system a while ago, but could not get it to 
work. The idea was to set the PATH variable when R was called in Rcmd 
build, for example, to point to the right Rtools. But my knowledge of 
windows scripting and environmental variables is quite limited, so I 
turned into having parallel installations of windows for each version of 
R in VirtualBox.


Iago


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