Platform specific issue: Windows, with restrictive group policy

[christophsax]

Not much we can do here, but on a corporate Windows laptop, I got with checkX13binary():

> checkX13binary()
Error in checkX13binary() : Call to X-13 hat non zero exit status
In addition: Warning message:
running command 'C:/Users/X60008592/R/win-library/3.2/x13binary/bin/x13ashtml.exe C:\Users\X60008~2\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpqK8Cap/Testairline' had status 127 

The reason is only revealed when running it on the command line:

C:\>C:/Users/X60008592/R/win-library/3.2/x13binary/bin/x13ashtml.exe
This program is blocked by group policy. For more information, contact your syst
em administrator.

The solution (except of 'contact your system administrator') would be to install x13binary to a library where the user has the rights to run exe files. But to make these kind of problems easier to solve, a more verbose checkX13binary() would be useful. I made some adjustments, using shell instead of system. (The documentation recommends using system2, but I couldn't get it returning this error message, only shell did it.)

Now, with the new error message:

> checkX13binary()
Error in checkX13binary() : When running

  C:/Users/X60008592/R/win-library/3.2/x13binary/bin/x13ashtml.exe

Command Prompt returned the following message:

  This program is blocked by group policy. For more information, contact
  your system administrator.

In addition: Warning message:
running command 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c C:/Users/X60008592/R/win-library/3.2/x13binary/bin/x13ashtml.exe C:\Users\X60008~2\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpqK8Cap/Testairline' had status 1 

[eddelbuettel]

I was wondering about system2() vs system() vs ... but I no longer work on Windows, and on the machine I had (which is now a VM I can still access) I was admin anyway so no help from me...

[eddelbuettel]

I guess this can now be closed?