Environment Variables

Dinamica EGO 5 has the option to configure some environment variables in order to provide some configuration customization. Below, it is provided the environment names with their respectively meaning:

• DINAMICA_EGO_5_ALTERNATIVE_PATH_FOR_R: Configure an alternative pathway to the R executable RScript.
• DINAMICA_EGO_5_R_CRAN_MIRROR: Configure the server which is better for you get the R packages.
• DINAMICA_EGO_5_TEMP_DIR: Configure an alternative pathway that will store the temporary folder and files created into Dinamica's session.
• DINAMICA_EGO_5_GDAL_TOOLS: Configure an alternative pathway with the GDAL utilities requested by Dinamica, those are 'gdal_rasterize', 'gdal_translate' and 'gdalwarp'.
• DINAMICA_EGO_5_GDAL_TOOLS_DATA: Configure an alternative pathway with the Data requested by GDAL utilities.

Follow these steps in order to access environment variables:

• Go into Settings and click on System.
• Then on the left side click About and select System info at the bottom.
• In the new Control Panel window that opens, click Advanced system settings on the left.
• Now in the new window that comes up, select Environment Variables… at the bottom.
• Then you will see the environment variables of user and system, and then you will be able to manipulate then, according your user access.
• After manipulation, you have to re-open Dinamica to environment changes be applied.

Linux has a different way to set environment variables. You find here the fully documentation about environment variables in ubuntu, that is similar to other distros.