From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Thu Sep 17 23:57:24 2009
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:57:24 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools
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On 17/09/2009 5:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 17/09/2009 4:40 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>> Maybe on other platforms but on Windows
>> help does not get linked properly with all
>> variations.
> 
> I think you are thinking of building binaries, not installing packages. 
>     Generally the only variation we advise against is
> 
> R CMD build --binary
> 
> Everything else should work fine, as far as I know.

And I forgot to add:  the way HTML help is handled in the upcoming 
2.10.0 is different, so I suspect R CMD build --binary will work.  I 
haven't tested it though...

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
>> 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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[Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools
Duncan Murdoch