Re: [Rd] Notes on building a gcc toolchain for Rtools (but not multilib)

Spurred by Hsiu-Khuern's post, I was able to compile R-devel_2015-03-08 using the already compiled distribution at

[Rd] ICU_531 and sjlj vs.seh

It seems that version of ICU_531 in as of June 25, 2014, was compiled using sjlj exception handling (current gcc-4.6.3, perhaps?). I say that as I am trying a 4.9.2 distribution which uses seh handling, and I get errors like: gcc -std=gnu99 -m64 -s

Re: [Rd] Notes on building a gcc toolchain for Rtools (but not multilib)

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Avraham Adler wrote: > > Thank you for the update, Hsiu-Khuern. Can you check how many digits > scientific notation shows? I was able to build a 64bit version of R > using the mingw64 4.8.4 distro, but ran into trouble with compat.c, > and the only work-around I f

Re: [Rd] Notes on building a gcc toolchain for Rtools (but not multilib)

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Hsiu-Khuern Tang wrote: > Hi, > > [This is a follow-up to the "New version of Rtools for Windows" thread > in January, but I just subscribed and don't know how to reply to an > old thread -- my apologies.] > > I was able to use the nuwen distro to build a gcc 4.9.2

[Rd] Notes on building a gcc toolchain for Rtools (but not multilib)

Hi, [This is a follow-up to the "New version of Rtools for Windows" thread in January, but I just subscribed and don't know how to reply to an old thread -- my apologies.] I was able to use the nuwen distro to build a gcc 4.9.2 toolchain and use it to build the latest R-patched with it. Below ar

Re: [Rd] Seed in 'parallel' vignette

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Marius Hofert wrote: > Hi, > > This is most likely only a minor technicality, but I saw the > following: On page 6 of the 'parallel' vignette > (http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/parallel/doc/parallel.pdf), > the random-number generator "L'Ecuyer-CMRG" i