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.urba...@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 <e...@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
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