Re: st: New version of -rsource- on SSC

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

I think my reason for choosing -Rterm.exe- instead of -R.exe- is the 
statement in Appendix B of Venables, Smith et al., 2013 (on the R 
project website) that:

At the Windows command-line, Rterm.exe is preferred to R.

It is not clearly stated why, except for the slightly cryptic statement:

Within a terminal window (e.g. cmd.exe or a more capable shell), the 
methods described in the previous section may be used, invoking by R.exe 
or more directly by Rterm.exe.

which seems to be hinting that R.exe might work by calling Rterm.exe.

Best wishes

Roger


References

Venables W. N., D. M. Smith, and the R Development Core Team.  An 
Introduction to R. Notes on R: A Programming Environment for Data 
Analysis and Graphics Version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25). Downloadable from the 
R Project Website at
http://www.r-project.org/
as of 03 March 2014.

Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology, Occupational Medicine
and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
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Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.

On 03/03/2014 19:10, David C. Airey wrote:
> I read that in the following PDF when I was searching for differences
> between Windows R and Mac R batch mode use (I got Windows 7 on my Mac):
>
> http://people.su.se/~lundh/reproduce/batchmode.pdf
>
> I was curious why you used Rterm.exe and not R.exe.
>
> Checking out your stcmd.ado package now...
>
> -Dave
>
> On Mar 3, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Roger B. Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > Hi Dave
> >
> > Thanks for the tip re /usr/bin/R. I unfortunately am a poor benighted Windows 7 user, and, when I install a new version of R on my system, it automatically installs it in a new folder with a new name. So, I always have to change my profile.do, and my TextPad External Tools settings, whenever I update R. I will look around for a way of changing this.
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
> > Lecturer in Medical Statistics
> > Respiratory Epidemiology, Occupational Medicine
> > and Public Health Group
> > National Heart and Lung Institute
> > Imperial College London
> > Royal Brompton Campus
> > Room 33, Emmanuel Kaye Building
> > 1B Manresa Road
> > London SW3 6LR
> > UNITED KINGDOM
> > Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 8121 ext 3381
> > Fax: +44 (0)20 7351 8322
> > Email: r.newson@imperial.ac.uk
> > Web page: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/
> > Departmental Web page:
> > http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/nhli/respiration/popgenetics/reph/
> >
> > Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.
> >
> > On 03/03/2014 18:26, David C. Airey wrote:
> > > .
> > >
> > > Thanks. Works fine on my Mac with this in my profile.do file:
> > >
> > > // for rsource.ado operation
> > > // ~Library/Application Support/Stata/profile.do
> > > global Rterm_path `"/usr/bin/R"'
> > > global Rterm_options `"--vanilla"'
> > >
> > > In my case, the way R is installed by default, the Rterm_path global
> > > always points to the most recently installed R.
> > >
> > > -Dave
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