From simon.urbanek at r-project.org  Thu Sep 17 21:58:12 2009
From: simon.urbanek at r-project.org (Simon Urbanek)
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:58:12 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools
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On Sep 17, 2009, at 12:43 , Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

> Thanks. Perhaps someone in the core group can
> still provide explicit information on how to install such
> a package.
>

R CMD INSTALL

(see R --help and it has been *the* way to install packages for quite  
a while so I'm not sure how more explicit we have to make it...)

Cheers,
Simon



> 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.
>>
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[Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools
Simon Urbanek