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 ##############
...Lengthy notes SNIPPED 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