R looking for the wrong java version

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Published on 2010-03-17T18:12:11Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 3:21 UTC
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Hi,

I installed/uninstalled java jre/jdk now many times and finally installed the older version 1.6.0_17 which is now located at "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin". Now after all if I call 'java -version' within R i can see that R is looking for Java at the old path which is now wrong. The question is: Why is R looking for Java at the wrong path even so the windows path is set correctly? There are no double entrys within the windows path as far as I can see and I restarted R as well as Windows more then once since then. Any Ideas where R takes the wrong path from?

On windows shell:
$>set
[..]
OS=Windows_NT
Path=C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin;
[..]

$> java -version
java version "1.6.0_17"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_17-b04)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.3-b01, mixed mode)

within R:
$>system("java -version")
Error: could not open `C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\lib\i386\jvm.cfg'

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