XP BATCH COMMAND RESOURCES

This file contains R-specific resources for Windows XP batch file
creation and also general resources for Windows XP batch file creation.

1. R SPECIFIC RESOURCES

John Fox provides a batch file for making packages:

	http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/11/6729.html

Henrik Bengtsson provides a batch file for setting environment
variables:

	http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/04a/0594.html

Information on building packages can be found in the Writing
Extensions Manual.    The following link is also useful although
the enclosed batch files eliminate the need for some of the 
procedures discussed:

	http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/

Googling for

	creating making R packages

will include links to a number of privately written tutorials.
(I have not reviewed these.)

2. GENERAL RESOURCES

These are particularly useful (from Windows command line):

	help set
	help for
	help if

LINKS

	ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip - FAQ with many idioms

	http://gearbox.maem.umr.edu/batch/f_w_util/ - Frank Westlake utilities

	http://gearbox.maem.umr.edu/fwu/ - more Frank Westlake utilities

	http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.msdos.batch.nt/msg/5a9587e871c27a75 - cmd bugs

	http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.msdos.batch/msg/7b1d22945c89af75 - cmd help resources 

	http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/list/webdev.asp - Windows script downloads

	http://thesystemguard.com/TheGuardBook/CCS-Int/ - info on batch commands

	http://www.allenware.com/icsw/icswref.htm - info on batch commands

	http://www.commandline.co.uk - Ritchie Lawrence cmd line utilities

	http://www.cybermesa.com/~bstewart/ - Bill Stewarts scripting tools

	http://www.fpschultze.de - FP Shcultzes batch tricks

	http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/scripts - MS TechNet scripting

	http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools - R package building tools

	http://www.paulsadowski.com/WSH/cmdutils.htm - Paul Sadowski batch info

	http://www.ss64.com/nt/index.html - batch command reference

	http://www.vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/rundll32.htm - rundll for batch scripts


