Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0505120624220.18101@gannet.stats>
Date: 2005-05-12T07:30:30Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Building R for windows tools link
In-Reply-To: <7FFEE688B57D7346BC6241C55900E730B700F9@pollux.bfro.uni-lj.si>
On Wed, 11 May 2005, Gorjanc Gregor wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I think that link to page of Duncan Murdoch (bellow) should be given
>
> http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/
>
> at
>
> http://developer.r-project.org/.
Are you saying that it is given incorrectly? I can't see it.
That site is for the development of R, not for users building R, so it
does not seem appropriate to link from there.
> It's easy to launch Google and find mentioned page, but it took me quite
> some time to do this, because I was sure, that it is noted somewhere on {www,CRAN}.r-project.org. Maybe I didn't read carefully ...
It _is_ in the R-admin manual, the place building R for Windows is
discussed (as from 2.1.0). Apart from in that manual I am unaware of it
being on the main R web sites.
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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