Hi Jim,
First of all it's my bad that I added the filepath to the System variables with variable Git .. that obviously won't work. After further investigation I found out the following: the PATH setting in my User variable is set correctly. I opened cmd.exe, entered the command PATH and the reference is returned correctly.
However, I get different results when doing something similar but now from the RStudio menu Tools > Shell. The cmd opens in the current project directory path and when the PATH is entered I see multiple references to the Git executable:
- C:\Users\user\Documents\Tooling\Git\bin\
- ~/Tooling/Git/bin
I also doublechecked the Default working directory in my Global Options > General. It shows ~ and browsing to it brings me indeed to the same location from which the 2nd reference should work just nicely.
So in short: I'm still puzzled why RStudio is giving me this system path error.