Change of compiler for Windows build of R
Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
Thanks to both of you! /Henrik On 8/15/07, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
On 8/14/2007 2:52 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
The MinGW people have finally released a couple of builds of gcc 4.2.1
Seconded. In particular, can we have a big round of applause for this bit:
It also includes Vanilla Perl,
so finally Rtools.exe is all you need to build packages on Windows.
Yay! People doing statistical computing classes rejoice! Getting the tools lined up properly has been a major stumbling block.
(You probably want to get the Microsoft help compiler and some LaTeX,
but these are not strictly necessary.)
(Can't win'em all. So Sweave still requires some work.)