R help - Jul 2004 - rd2dvi bug on windoze?

hi,

can anyone confirm the following problem? when i do

dos> rcmd rd2dvi --pdf my-package-name

i get

dos> Can't open perl script "c:\PROGRA~1\r\rw1091/bin/rd2dvi":
No such file or directory

might the problem be in (double back slashes rather than forward slashes)

R-1.9.1\src\gnuwin32\front-ends\rcmdfn.c(251): strcat(cmd, RHome); strcat(cmd,
"/bin/Rd2dvi.sh");

> version
         _
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386
os       mingw32
system   i386, mingw32
status
major    1
minor    9.1
year     2004
month    06
day      21
language R

@windoze xp sp1

h.
----------------------------------
Hiroyuki Kawakatsu
School of Management and Economics
25 University Square
Queen's University, Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
Tel +44 (0)28 9097 3290
Fax +44 (0)28 9033 5156

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:52:21 +0100, Hiroyuki Kawakatsu
<hkawakat at qub.ac.uk> wrote :
>hi,
>
>can anyone confirm the following problem? when i do
>
>dos> rcmd rd2dvi --pdf my-package-name
>
>i get
>
>dos> Can't open perl script
"c:\PROGRA~1\r\rw1091/bin/rd2dvi": No such file or directory
No, the problem is that rcmd processes commands in a case sensitive
way.  You need

 rcmd Rd2dvi ....

When you have an unrecognized command, rcmd tries to figure out if
it's a Perl script (no extension) or a SH script (.sh extension), then
passes it to the OS to process.  This means

 rcmd rd2dvi.sh ....

works in a case-insensitive way, but that's more or less by accident.
Generally R tries to be case sensitive, but sometimes the work is done
by the OS, and then it depends on the file system.

Duncan Murdoch

Hiroyuki Kawakatsu wrote:
> hi,
> 
> can anyone confirm the following problem? when i do
> 
> dos> rcmd rd2dvi --pdf my-package-name
a) It's not "dos>", but the Windows command shell.
b) It's called Windows, not windoze
c) The script is called Rd2dvi.sh and in this case the command name 
(Rd2dvi) is case sensitive, hence use

   R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf my-package-name

Uwe Ligges

> i get
> 
> dos> Can't open perl script
"c:\PROGRA~1\r\rw1091/bin/rd2dvi": No such file or directory
> 
> might the problem be in (double back slashes rather than forward slashes)
> 
> R-1.9.1\src\gnuwin32\front-ends\rcmdfn.c(251): strcat(cmd, RHome);
strcat(cmd, "/bin/Rd2dvi.sh");
> 
> 
> 
>>version
> 
>          _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386, mingw32
> status
> major    1
> minor    9.1
> year     2004
> month    06
> day      21
> language R
> 
> @windoze xp sp1
> 
> h.
> ----------------------------------
> Hiroyuki Kawakatsu
> School of Management and Economics
> 25 University Square
> Queen's University, Belfast
> Belfast BT7 1NN
> Northern Ireland
> United Kingdom
> Tel +44 (0)28 9097 3290
> Fax +44 (0)28 9033 5156
> 
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Uwe Ligges wrote:
> b) It's called Windows, not windoze
	No!!! It's definitely Windoze!!!

				cheers,

					Rolf Turner
					rolf at math.unb.ca