R help - Nov 2011 - unable to get "R CMD" to work as expected on a 64 bit windows machine

Hi,

I've just downloaded and installed R 2.14.0 using the windows binary on
a 64bit windows machine running windows 7.

Rterm / RGui work as expected, as does

R CMD --help

and

R CMD BATCH --help

however

R CMD check --help

returns no information and I seem to be unable to check a package.

Various other options also seem to not be working as expected, i.e. 

R CMD REMOVE aa

(where aa is just a garbage name) appears to do nothing (whereas the
same command on a 32bit windows machine returns with a message that
package aa does not exist.) 

Just invoking R on the command line appears to do nothing on 64 bit
windows as opposed to starting a command line version of R (ala Rterm)
on 32 bit windows.

Any pointers as to what I've done wrong during the installation would be
appreciated.

Cheers

Martyn

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

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Hi Martyn,

My guess is that you need to add the directory where R is located to
your Windows PATH variable.  It sounds like Windows just doesn't know
where to find R.

HTH,

Josh

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Martyn Byng <Martyn.Byng at nag.co.uk>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just downloaded and installed R 2.14.0 using the windows binary on
> a 64bit windows machine running windows 7.
>
> Rterm / RGui work as expected, as does
>
> R CMD --help
>
> and
>
> R CMD BATCH --help
>
> however
>
> R CMD check --help
>
> returns no information and I seem to be unable to check a package.
>
> Various other options also seem to not be working as expected, i.e.
>
> R CMD REMOVE aa
>
> (where aa is just a garbage name) appears to do nothing (whereas the
> same command on a 32bit windows machine returns with a message that
> package aa does not exist.)
>
> Just invoking R on the command line appears to do nothing on 64 bit
> windows as opposed to starting a command line version of R (ala Rterm)
> on 32 bit windows.
>
> Any pointers as to what I've done wrong during the installation would
be
> appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martyn
>
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England
> and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is:
> Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom.
>
> This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. Th...{{dropped:4}}
>
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