i downloaded the latest release of perl for win (just a few days old) and it now has a smarter installation routine. it puts itself in front of all other dirs (in path), and it als tells that it tries to remove any other path leading to another perl. well, the offending matlab perl lives in \matlabr11\bin and this path also contains the whole matlab stuff, so it cannot be removed. but with official perl before matylab in the path, things now work without fiddling with the path. -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-38624 Fax: +43-1-4277-9386 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._