From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Thu Sep 17 23:55:32 2009
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:55:32 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools
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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.

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