Message-ID: <46C32529.5050100@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 2007-08-15T16:09:13Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Change of compiler for Windows build of R
In-Reply-To: <59d7961d0708150842h6b457f93i783a5497e0f34395@mail.gmail.com>
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.)