From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk  Wed Dec 14 00:26:49 2005
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: 14 Dec 2005 00:26:49 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Building R with f2c - still needed?
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Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> Does anyone have a need to use f2c rather than a Fortran compiler to build 
> R?
> 
> It is yet one more thing to test, and as it only works on 32-bit platforms 
> it is something that I will shortly no longer be able to test.


The only candidate that I can think of is the PDA scene, which R has
been just a little too hard to build for till now (Linux based Zaurus
excepted). For those platforms you could be stuck with only a C/C++
compiler, but probably also without all the rest of the toolchain, so
building will be a major headache anyway.

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[Rd] Building R with f2c - still needed?
Peter Dalgaard