Rtools questions

On 11-04-05 7:51 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
?wrote:

On 11-04-05 6:22 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:

Hello:


? ? ? ? 1. ?How can I tell when the development version of Rtools has
changed?

I don't make announcements of the changes, you just need to check the web
site. ?There are online tools that can do this for you automatically, but
I
don't know which one to recommend. ?Google suggests lots of them.

I also asked myself this before and I must admit it took me a while to
interpret the contents of the webpage. ?There are multiple sections,
e.g. 'Changes since R 2.12.2', 'Changes since R 2.11.1', 'Changes
since R 2.11.0', and so on. ?Then within each section there are some
dates mentioned. ?Given my current R version (say R 2.13.0 beta) and
Rtools (Rtools213.exe), it not fully clear to me which section to look
at, e.g. 'Changes since R 2.12.2'?

Well, that depends on when you downloaded it. ?I use the R version releases
as bookmarks. ?If you last downloaded Rtools after the release of R 2.12.2,
then you only need to look at the last section.

The problem with collecting changes into those that apply to each Rtools
version is just that the change lists would be longer: ?Rtools212 will get
changes through several R releases. ?When there are compiler changes,
RtoolsXYZ generally comes out during the previous R version, because the
compiler may only work with the R-devel version. ?For instance, Rtools212
was introduced between R 2.11.0 and 2.11.1 and was updated a number of times
up to quite recently. ?(It is now frozen, so if you download it now and are
working with the R versions it supports you never need to worry about
updates to it.)

However, if you want to reformat the page, go ahead, and send me the new
version. ?It's a hand edited HTML page so I'd be happy to incorporate
changes that make it more readable, as long as it's still easy to edit by
hand.

Gabor asked how to know which version was downloaded. ?If you have the
installer file you can tell: ?right click on it, choose Properties, look at
the Version tab. ?If you didn't keep the installer, I don't know a way to
find out, but it might be recorded in the unins000.dat file that the
uninstaller uses. ?Of course, without downloading the new one you can't find
out its version: ?so back to my original suggestion to monitor changes to
the web page. ?I'll see if there's a way to automatically include the
revision number in the filename.

Duncan Murdoch





?It might be more clear if there

instead the sections would be 'Changes in Rtools213', 'Changes in
Rtools212' and so on, and within each maybe list updates by
dates/version. ?More like a NEWS file. ?Then it would be easier to see
if there is an updated available or not. ?Even a NEWS file only
available as part of the installation will help decide whether the
version you have installed differ from the one available online.
Something like the following:

== Changes in Rtools213 ==

[...]


== Changes in Rtools212 ==

2011-03-25:
- Rtools 2.12 has been frozen.
- We have updated all of the tools to current Cygwin versions as of
March 25, 2011. We added the "du" utility from Cygwin. We have dropped
Vanilla Perl. The libjpeg version has been updated to 8c, and libpng
has been updated to 1.5.1.

2010-10-18: [v2.12.0.1892]<== Is this an Rtools version?!?
- Prior to October 18, 2010, builds of Rtools212.exe did not correctly
install the "extras" required to build R. Version 2.12.0.1892 or later
should fix this.
- We have now updated all of the tools to current Cygwin versions, and
have updated the compilers, and included the 64 bit compilers into
Rtools. See Prof. Ripley's page for the details.
- Perl is rarely needed in R since R 2.12.0, so it is by default not
installed.

2010-??-??:
- The 32 bit version of R-devel (to become R 2.12.0 in fall, 2010)
will be built with gcc 4.5.x, so Rtools212 contains a completely new
MinGW toolchain based on gcc 4.5.0.

== Changes in Rtools211 ==

[...]


Just a suggestion ...and thanks for providing Rtools!

/Henrik

? For the past few years, I've installed the development version

of R tools with each new release of R. ?I encountered problems with this
a few days ago, so I rolled back to Rtools212.exe. ?Unfortunately, I
seem to have more problems with that version. ?My latest install was
under Windows 7 Home Edition. ?My previous problems were on Vista, but I
also have access to Fedora 13 Linux.

I know that Windows 7 64 bit has problems with Rtools. ?Brian Ripley has
had
some luck using the tools (the bin directory) and Cygwin DLLs from last
summer, along with the current compilers. ?I'm reluctant to back out the
new
versions, because I use Cygwin for other things (including OpenSSH) and
don't want to get locked out of updates.

I haven't heard of problems with other Windows 7 versions, but I haven't
tried them.

? ? ? ? 2. ?"R CMD check" ends with the following:


* checking examples ... OK
* checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING
LaTeX errors when creating PDF version.
This typically indicates Rd problems.
* checking PDF version of manual without hyperrefs or index ... ERROR
Re-running with no redirection of stdout/stderr.
Hmm ... looks like a package
Error in texi2dvi("Rd2.tex", pdf = (out_ext == "pdf"), quiet = FALSE, ?:
? ? unable to run 'pdflatex' on 'Rd2.tex'
Error in running tools::texi2dvi
You may want to clean up by 'rm -rf
C:/Users/sgraves/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmpr6z3
r6/Rd2pdf55b96c9a'


? ? ? ? This is using Rtools213, downloaded April 4 from
"www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools" with R installed as follows:

sessionInfo()

R version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25)
Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base

Do you have pdflatex? ?It's not part of Rtools, it's part of LaTeX, as
described in Rtools.txt.

Duncan Murdoch