installing R packages in Windows?
On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Guido Masarotto wrote:
On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 11:54:09PM +0100, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
All of this is very experimental, so do be careful not to trust the results. As gunwin32 R has no batch mode, I cannot check standard
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scripts easily and have only run cursory checks.
How difficult would it be to create one? I suspect that all you need is to avoid starting up the console and do stdio instead. The ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) crowd will want this as well.
I am not really a MsWindows programmer so I will try to summarize what I know hoping that others (Luke?) will suggest the right direction.
I am much, much less of an MS windows programmer than Guido. What I intended to try to do was: (i) build almost all of R as a DLL. I think that is easy given what Guido has done, and then other DLLs can link against the import library for that DLL. We just need a DLL version of R.a and a different libR.a (I think). (ii) build two front-ends called say Rconsole.exe and Rbatch.exe to drive that DLL. If it helps, S-PLUS 4.5 has essentially both Guido's options 1) (sqpe.exe) and 2) (Splus /BATCH) and I use 1) almost all the time.
There are two possibilities easy to implement but not completly
satisfactory:
1) to build a only `stdio` executable, i.e., to have an executable
which behaves as when you start the Unix one with the
Yes, please, and I think that would suffice for ESS if we are careful about prompts and stdout/stderr. I don't care if the x11() device is not active in this mode. An ESS insider should be able to advise exactly what is required; the problem with sqpe.exe is that the prompts disappear if input is redirected.
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