[R] Modyfing PATH in Windows Installer for R

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Mon Dec 6 16:30:13 CET 2004


On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:04:56 +0100, "Philippe Grosjean"
<phgrosjean at sciviews.org> wrote :

>Path and environment variables are indeed mirrored in the registry under
>Windows NT. Thus, a program that can change the registry, like Inno Setup,
>can also change the path. See here:
>http://support.installshield.com/kb/view.asp?articleid=Q100090

But we still have users using Win9x versions, which use a more
DOS-like method of setting the path.  At some point we'll drop support
for them, but I don't want to do it sooner than necessary.

Duncan Murdoch




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