problem installing packages from source on win2k

On 13 Jun 2003, Marc Schwartz wrote:

Date: 13 Jun 2003 20:03:32 -0500
From: Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com>
To: Simon Cawley <simon_cawley at affymetrix.com>
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] problem installing packages from source on win2k

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 19:02, Simon Cawley wrote:

Dear R-helpers,

I'm having trouble compiling R packages from source on Win2K.  I
installed R 1.7.1beta [1] on my win2k machine [2], downloaded the
fields package as source [3] and tried but failed to install the
package [4].  I get the same problem with other packages, so it
doesn't appear to be limited to fields.  Installation of precompiled
packages seems to work fine.  I've been doing this on linux for a long
time and never ran into such an issue.

I've trawled the FAQ and the archives but I'm not finding anything. 
Any clues where I'm going wrong?

Thanks in advance,

-Simon

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Simon, 

Unless I am missing something here, I think that you are making this
more difficult than you need to.

Thanks I believe to Uwe Ligges, there appears to be a version of the
fields package already compiled for R 1.7.x on Windows at:

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.7/fields_1.3-1.zip

Is there a reason that you cannot use this?

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

Thanks Marc, but I was just using compilation of the fields package as an example.

What I'm really trying to resolve here is how to compile my own packages on win2k, compilation of existing well-tested packages is just a step along the way.

-S