Building an R package under Windows NT

-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:48 AM
To: STABLER Benjamin
Subject: RE: [R] Building an R package under Windows NT


On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 Benjamin.STABLER at odot.state.or.us wrote:

Professor Ripley,

I just downloaded and installed the most current tools from your site
(http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/), I have version 

5.005_02 of Perl,

and I still get the same error.  Do you think Perl 5.8 would 

*fix* this

problem?

I have no idea, but I do know that correcting all of *your* 
errors would 
solve the problem.  As that version of Perl was AFAIK never 
released for 
Windows (and has not been available for several years if it 
was), I think 
you need to try to follow the instructions *exactly* (which 
you have not 
done re Perl, which says

 The Windows port of perl5, available via
 http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/.
 BEWARE: you do need the *Windows* port and not the Cygwin one.

).

I didn't think the docs=html option would work as I got the 

html option from

the Rdconv type=TYPE help since the build help does not list 

the options.  I

didn't think to look at the install help.

Why do you think --type (sic) takes the same values as --docs ?


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