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. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel