install rdcomclient source

Thanks. I didn't know that.  I just found it in Brian Ripley's page.  Is this the  cran extras?

Thanks
Richard



On 3 May 2011, at 13:19, Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>  wrote:

On 03.05.2011 14:09, Richard Wang wrote:

Thanks. One more question.  If I use install.packsges, do I need to install Rtool or utils package is sufficient?

It depends on how demanding the package is. For the one you mentioned, you will need the Rtools, since C/C++ sources are to be compiled. And it won't work out of the box, since some manual tweaks are required - at least the last time I tried.

Do you know that the package is available from CRAN extras if form of a Windows binary? install.packages() without the type="source"  argument should work right away.

Uwe Ligges

Thanks,
Richard


On 3 May 2011, at 12:26, Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>   wrote:

On 02.05.2011 23:48, Richard Wang wrote:

Hi,

I'd like to ask a installation question.  I want to install a source code
through the following command,
R CMD INSTALL RDCOMClient

This is intended to be used in the shell of your OS (assuming Windows given the package), not in R.

 From within R use install.packages("RDCOMClient", type="source") if you really want to install from source.

Uwe Ligges

but get  Error: unexpected symbol in "r cmd"

Please let know if I miss anything.  I my utils package loaded.

Thanks,
Richard

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