R-alpha: Re: Separation of Program & Doc; REQUIRING Perl5 [was: New Version]
Douglas Bates writes:
Regarding Perl5 availability: - In the Unix world I would be surprised if people who would want to install R would not also have access to perl5 or be able to install it. I would assert that the level of skill required to install R is comparable to that required to install perl.
:-) Btw, does CPAN have binary distributions as well?
- For Mac or Windows are you expecting that most users would install from the .tar.gz file? I would have thought that there would be one compilation done to create a .zip file for Windows and a .hqx file for the Mac. The typical user would only need to install these "tar-ball" files and never need to see the part that depended on perl. If someone decides to write an R function that calls perl then it will croak but the same would happen for shell scripts, awk scripts, ...
I am confused now. I thought the advantage of Perl is that it is available on non-Unix platforms as well ...? (Of course, that does not solve the `packaging' problem ...) -k =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=