need a Windows binary for Rcartogram from omegahat
Mark Daniel Ward wrote:
Greetings! I'm about to have a lab for my students using the Rcartogram library. I cannot get the Rcartogram library installed on the Windows PC's, because they do not have the fftw library pre-installed. To compile from source, the students also appear to need to have several auxiliary pieces of software installed (such as basics, including perl and bash and gcc). This is perhaps too much to expect from my students. (I have these on my Mac, but they will not have them on their Windows computers.) Has anyone already built a Windows binary of the Rcartogram library that includes the fftw as part of the installation? I checked earlier in the year on the mailing lists, and the answer was negative, but I'm very eager to know if anyone can help in this regard. We are failing miserably at building the Windows source for Rcartogram. Thank you in advance for any quick advice that you can offer. I appreciate it very much. P.S. The computer staff already installed the fftw library for me on the Mac OS X lab computers using the following commands, suggested kindly to me on the R for Mac mailing list: curl -O http://r.research.att.com/libs/fftw-3.2.2-darwin9-bin4.tar.gz sudo tar fvxz fftw-3.2.2-darwin9-bin4.tar.gz -C / Afterwards, I am able to successfully install the Rcartogram library from source using: install.packages("Rcartogram", repos = "http://www.omegahat.org/R", type = "source") Mark
As an indirect answer/back-up plan if you can't get the windows mess built you could try the latest Live GIS DVD/Virtual Machine from OSGeo. http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/ VirtualBox, VMWarePlayer etc are all available for free to run the vm on a windows desktop. R is already installed, and if you can do the library install once on the vm before giving it to the students or provide a script to the install I can help you make sure it works. Alex