Re: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

2009-09-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
The software and manuals are not yet in readily accessible form on CRAN based on the date of the feature and I would prefer not to have to build it myself when any day now it will be there automatically anyways. Also, I was hoping to avoid a frustrating session of trial and error when surely someo

Re: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

2009-09-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 17/09/2009 7:47 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: I meant to write: Rcmd INSTALL --build myPackage/ vs. Rcmd INSTALL myPackage/ You, yourself, have mentioned the problem of linking help pages on r-devel within the last few months: More recently than that. This is the problem I was referring

Re: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

2009-09-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I meant to write: Rcmd INSTALL --build myPackage/ vs. Rcmd INSTALL myPackage/ You, yourself, have mentioned the problem of linking help pages on r-devel within the last few months: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e6/devel/09/05/1721.html and now that this is all changing it would be helpful

Re: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

2009-09-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Does that mean that Rcmd INSTALL --binary myPackage/ is still ok or should one use: No, that has never worked. Please follow Simon's advice, and read the manual. Duncan Murdoch Rcmd INSTALL myPackage/ without --binary and is this advice the same with a

Re: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

2009-09-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Does that mean that Rcmd INSTALL --binary myPackage/ is still ok or should one use: Rcmd INSTALL myPackage/ without --binary and is this advice the same with and without Rtools? Also, as there is potential confusion here could the combinations of flags that are not recommended result in

Re: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

2009-09-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
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

Re: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

2009-09-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
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 E

Re: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

2009-09-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Maybe on other platforms but on Windows help does not get linked properly with all variations. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Simon Urbanek 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 surpris

Re: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

2009-09-17 Thread Simon Urbanek
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 co

Re: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

2009-09-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Note that that is not currently the recommended way. Also, what comes after INSTALL? The source .tar.gz name? The pathname to the source directory? On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > On Sep 17, 2009, at 12:43 , Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >> Thanks. Perhaps someone in the

Re: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

2009-09-17 Thread Simon Urbanek
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 exp

Re: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

2009-09-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Thanks. Perhaps someone in the core group can still provide explicit information on how to install such a package. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 17 September 2009 at 11:32, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > | Regarding this from this week: > | > | 2.10.0 PACKAGE INST

Re: [Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

2009-09-17 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
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 inst

[Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

2009-09-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
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 Mi