Windows Source Install Without Rtools
Maybe on other platforms but on Windows help does not get linked properly with all variations. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
On Sep 17, 2009, at 16:09 , Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
Note that that is not currently the recommended way.
Now that would be a surprise to me - to quote R-admin: 6.3.1: "R CMD INSTALL works in Windows to install source packages if you have the source-code package files".
Also, what comes after INSTALL? The source .tar.gz name? The pathname to the source directory?
R CMD INSTALL --help Usage: R CMD INSTALL [options] pkgs Install the add-on packages specified by pkgs. ?The elements of pkgs can be relative or absolute paths to directories with the package (bundle) sources, or to gzipped package 'tar' archives. ?The library tree [...] Cheers, S
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
On Sep 17, 2009, at 12:43 , Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
Thanks. Perhaps someone in the core group can still provide explicit information on how to install such a package.
R CMD INSTALL (see R --help and it has been *the* way to install packages for quite a while so I'm not sure how more explicit we have to make it...) Cheers, Simon
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
On 17 September 2009 at 11:32, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | Regarding this from this week: | | 2.10.0 PACKAGE INSTALLATION (Windows) | It is possible to install source packages without Rtools provided they | have no compiled code and no configure.win or cleanup.win script. | | - what are the instructions to perform such a source install? | - I assume one still needs MiKTeX -- is that right? | - is the source install done from a tar.gz (in which case one would | need tar to create it) or directly from the source directory tree? You may want to stick this ? ?http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel into your RSS reader so that you get daily summaries of changes. I don't follow this too religiously (as I typically only built r-devel once we have alpha/beta/rc candidates) but even I am aware that ? ?a) dynamic .Rd conversion at runtime, so Miktex may no longer be needed ? ?b) untgz.exe on Windows to read (compressed) tarballs Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
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