[ESS] ESS on windows and shell()

[Alessandro Piras]

I forgot to add another maybe useful information. shell.exec starts
wgnuplot without any problem just with
shell.exec('wgnuplot')
Alessandro


On 24 February 2010 18:04, Alessandro Piras <laynor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> unluckily shell.exec is not what i need, as i can't pass command line
> switches to the program.
> Also, as you can see from the code i pasted, I don't have any spaces
> the string. shell() just doesn't handle spaces in my path environment
> variable.
> I found a solution, that you, or some other ESS developer (are you one
> of them by the way?) may find useful. I can run the program correctly
> using cmd.exe as shell, with
> shell(program_name, 'cmd', '/c')
> that in my case becomes
> shell('wgnuplot', 'cmd', '/c')
>
> Alessandro
>
>
> On 24 February 2010 17:51, Kevin Wright <kw.stat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Two ideas:
>>
>> 1. Try shell.exec instead of shell.
>> 2. Try the full path name without spaces.  For example:
>> shell.exec("C:/progra~1/wgnuplot.exe")
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Alessandro Piras <laynor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, I'm having some problems with ESS.
>>> > shell('wgnuplot.exe')
>>> Warning messages:
>>> 1: In system(cmd, intern = intern, wait = wait | intern,
>>> show.output.on.console = wait,  :
>>>  C:/Program not found
>>> 2: In shell("wgnuplot.exe") : 'wgnuplot.exe' could not be run
>>> >
>>> However, that same command works correctly using Rgui.
>>> Any idea about this?
>>>
>>> __
>>> Alessandro
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kevin Wright
>>
>>
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