man Statistics::R::Win32 (3): Helper functions for Statistics::R on MS Windows platforms

DESCRIPTION

Helper functions to deal with environment variables and escape file paths on MS Windows platforms.

if ( $^O =~ m/^(?:.*?win32|dos)$/i ) {
require Statistics::R::Win32;
}

win32_path_adjust( )

Looks for paths where R could be installed, e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\R-2.1\bin and add it to the PATH environment variable.

win32_space_quote( )

Takes a path and return a path that is surrounded by double-quotes if the path contains whitespaces. Example:

   C:\Program Files\R\bin\x64

becomes

   "C:\Program Files\R\bin\x64"

win32_space_escape( )

Takes a path and return a path where spaces have been escaped by a backslash. contains whitespaces. Example:

   C:\Program Files\R\bin\x64

becomes

   C:\Program\ Files\R\bin\x64

win32_double_bs

Takes a path and return a path where each backslash was replaced by two backslashes.
Example:

   C:\Program Files\R\bin\x64

becomes

   C:\\Program Files\\R\\bin\\x64

Florent Angly <[email protected]> (2011 rewrite)

Graciliano M. P. <[email protected]> (original code)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

All complex software has bugs lurking in it, and this program is no exception. If you find a bug, please report it on the CPAN Tracker of Statistics::R: http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=Statistics-R <http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=Statistics-R>

Bug reports, suggestions and patches are welcome. The Statistics::R code is developed on Github (http://github.com/bricas/statistics-r <http://github.com/bricas/statistics-r>) and is under Git revision control. To get the latest revision, run:

   git clone [email protected]:bricas/statistics-r.git