From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Thu Sep 17 18:43:56 2009
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:43:56 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools
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Thanks. Perhaps someone in the core group can
still provide explicit information on how to install such
a package.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 17 September 2009 at 11:32, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> | Regarding this from this week:
> |
> | 2.10.0 PACKAGE INSTALLATION (Windows)
> | It is possible to install source packages without Rtools provided they
> | have no compiled code and no configure.win or cleanup.win script.
> |
> | - what are the instructions to perform such a source install?
> | - I assume one still needs MiKTeX -- is that right?
> | - is the source install done from a tar.gz (in which case one would
> | need tar to create it) or directly from the source directory tree?
>
> You may want to stick this
>
> ? ? ?http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel
>
> into your RSS reader so that you get daily summaries of changes.
>
> I don't follow this too religiously (as I typically only built r-devel once we have
> alpha/beta/rc candidates) but even I am aware that
>
> ? ? ?a) dynamic .Rd conversion at runtime, so Miktex may no longer be needed
>
> ? ? ?b) untgz.exe on Windows to read (compressed) tarballs
>
> Dirk
>
> --
> Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
>



[Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools
Gabor Grothendieck