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R-1.6.1beta available

5 messages · Peter Dalgaard, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Ko-Kang Kevin Wang +1 more

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Peter Dalgaard
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R 1.6.1 has been scheduled for November 1.

We're makin interim beta versions available via

http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base

(ftp://cran.us.r-project.org/pub/R/src/base used to work, but
apparently FTP access has been disabled)

The filename is R-1.6.1beta_*.tar.gz, where * is the creation date. 

If you want to help ensure that the final 1.6.1 works satisfactorily
on *your* platform, it might be a good idea to make a test build of
the beta and report any errors back (to the r-devel list, not to me
personally, please!).

New versions will be made available each day until the final release,
barring hardware trouble and build script failures.
Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Dalgaard BSA" <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>
To: <r-devel@r-project.org>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:34 AM
Subject: R-1.6.1beta available
I've successfully compiled it (with ActiveTcl 8.4.0.1 too!) on Windows.  The
file size is ~ 21MB.

I didn't realise it was R 1.6.1 beta at first.  I was using rsync to get
r-patched on my 1.6.0,   Then after compilation/installation I realised it
is in fact 1.6.1 Beta.  I'm assuming one can rsync it?  The command I used
was:
   rsync -aC rsync.r-project.org::r-patched ./R-patched

Cheers,

Ko-Kang Wang

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Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
Post Graduate PGDipSci Student
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
New Zealand
www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022


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Dirk Eddelbuettel
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 02:34:54PM +0200, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
Debian packages were uploaded for i386 last evening, and have already been
compiled successfully for six other architectures (alpha arm hppa ia64
powerpc and m68k). The remaining four (m68k mips mipsel sparc) should follow
shortly. 

My i386 release was built on 'testing' (aka 'sarge') and should be
installable on any testing or unstable machine. The other architectures
may require the unstable release.
No issues to report.
As with the 1.[456].* prereleases, I will probably stick to weekly
snapshots.

Dirk
7 days later
Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
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Just for interests, I have succesfully compiled  R-1.6.1beta_2002-10-25
using ActiveTcl 8.4.1.0 (released on 20 Oct) and Inno Setup 3.0.4 Beta (also
released on 20 Oct).

As mentioned before, with Inno Setup 3.x, they got rid of the
"AlwaysCreateUninstallIcon".  So I had to remove it from JRins before
compilation.  But the main interest, I guess, is it can be compiled with
ActiveTcl 8.4.1.0

Cheers,

Kevin

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Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
Post Graduate PGDipSci Student
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
New Zealand
www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022

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To: <r-devel@r-project.org>
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Brian Ripley
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On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Ko-Kang Kevin Wang wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Surely a Beta is never `released'!  We will consider using Inno Setup 3.x
once it really is released.

As far as I know we do not intend to build the 1.6.1 binary with Tcl
8.4.x, and the documentation does say that 8.3.x is required. A given
build has to use either 8.3 or 8.4 as the DLLs have different names.
Given the prevalence of 8.3, we won't I believe be moving to 8.4 for a
patch release. Maybe rw1070 will use Tcl 8.4.x.

            

      
      
      
    

        
(I did add a patch to tcltk.c to allow it to build correctly under Tcl
8.4.x.)