From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Thu Sep 17 22:40:50 2009
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:40:50 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools
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Maybe on other platforms but on Windows
help does not get linked properly with all
variations.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> On Sep 17, 2009, at 16:09 , Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>
>> Note that that is not currently the recommended way.
>>
>
> Now that would be a surprise to me - to quote R-admin: 6.3.1: "R CMD INSTALL
> works in Windows to install source packages if you have the source-code
> package files".
>
>
>> Also, what comes after INSTALL? The source .tar.gz name?
>> The pathname to the source directory?
>>
>
>
> R CMD INSTALL --help
>
> Usage: R CMD INSTALL [options] pkgs
>
> Install the add-on packages specified by pkgs. ?The elements of pkgs can
> be relative or absolute paths to directories with the package (bundle)
> sources, or to gzipped package 'tar' archives. ?The library tree
> [...]
>
> Cheers,
> S
>
>
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Simon Urbanek
>> <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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[Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools
Gabor Grothendieck