id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc 413,"add ""Windows batchfiles for use with R"" to OSGeo4W",hellik,osgeo4w-dev@…,"hi, there are some nice simple windows-bat files [1] [2] to start R (www.r-project.org) from everywhere if these bat-files are in %PATH% tested here locally with following example (A) batch files are in e.g. {{{ C:\OSGeo4W\apps\r-batchfiles }}} (B) added a bat-file in {{{ C:\OSGeo4W\etc\ini\r-project.bat }}} with a onliner to add (A) to the path {{{ PATH %PATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\r-batchfiles }}} then R is availabe in the OSGeo4W-shell/OSGeo4W-windows command shell and can be started e.g. within a winGRASS-session. as these R-batch-files recognizes R 32bit/R 64bit, it may be included in OSGeo4W 32bit and 64bit. the license is GNU GPL v2. it would be a really added value for OSGeo4W, as R is often used in GIS workflows/analyses and the OSGeo4W-R-integration would be enabled in an easy way. would it be possible these files into OSGeo4W? thanks Helmut [1] https://code.google.com/p/batchfiles/ [2] http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/batchfiles/",enhancement,closed,major,Package,,fixed,R,