R help - Jul 2009 - How do I know where is R? - VB Programming

Dear all -

Is there anyone know how to let VB or C# know where I install R 
automatically(i.e. auto detect R directory)?


Many thanks!

Best,
Haoda

On 14/07/2009 7:22 PM, Haoda Fu wrote:
> Dear all -
> 
> Is there anyone know how to let VB or C# know where I install R 
> automatically(i.e. auto detect R directory)?
On Windows if you run the installer it will record its location in the 
registry, under *\Software\R-core\R\, where * is HKLM or HKCU, depending 
on what permissions the user had who installed it.  But some users don't 
run the installer (maybe because someone else installed it on a network, 
or they built it themselves) so that isn't completely reliable.

Duncan Murdoch

For some examples of using the R registry entries see
Rcmd.bat, Rversions.bat and Rversions.hta in the
batchfiles distribution whose home page is:
http://batchfiles.googlecode.com

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Haoda Fu<fuhds at yahoo.com.cn>
wrote:
>
> Dear all -
>
> Is there anyone know how to let VB or C# know where I install R
> automatically(i.e. auto detect R directory)?
>
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Best,
> Haoda
>
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