Message-ID: <1055552612.12970.45.camel@localhost>
Date: 2003-06-14T01:04:20Z
From: Marc Schwartz
Subject: problem installing packages from source on win2k
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306131627560.16761-100000@luino.neomorphic.com>
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