Windows Source Install Without Rtools

Note that that is not currently the recommended way.

Also, what comes after INSTALL? The source .tar.gz name?
The pathname to the source directory?

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Simon Urbanek
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

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