Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Denham Robert wrote: > For various reasons, it suits our workplace to have a cygwin version of > R. I am pretty sure that cygwin is still not a supported environment > for R, but we have managed to compile R-2.5.1 under cygwin without too > many dramas. Our procedure is described below. We still

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Yes, > What is the advantage of building this? was my question too. If you want a Unix-like version of R on PC hardware running Windows why not run a Unix-like OS under a virtual machine? Quite a lot of the details are wrong: using FLIBS, BLAS_LIBS and LIBS as intended will solve most of the

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Yes, > >> What is the advantage of building this? > > was my question too. If you want a Unix-like version of R on PC hardware > running Windows why not run a Unix-like OS under a virtual machine? > > Quite a lot of the details are wrong: using FLIBS, BLAS_LIBS and L

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 8/21/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > Yes, > > > >> What is the advantage of building this? > > > > was my question too. If you want a Unix-like version of R on PC hardware > > running Windows why not run a Unix-like OS under a virtual machine

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/21/2007 10:57 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> Yes, >> >>> What is the advantage of building this? >> >> was my question too. If you want a Unix-like version of R on PC hardware >> running Windows why not run a Unix-like OS under a virtual machine? >> >> Qui

[Rd] buglet (?) in de.restore()

2007-08-21 Thread Ben Bolker
If one calls data.entry() with a matrix: A = matrix(0,2,2) data.entry(A) everything works fine except that it triggers a warning: Warning message: the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used in: if (dim(x) == dim(args[[i]])) rn <- dimnames(args[[i]])[[1]] else rn

Re: [Rd] available.packages (PR#9841)

2007-08-21 Thread zivan . karaman
--=_Part_60506_18925213.1187708869863 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Thank you very much for your explanation, it woks correctly indeed. On 8/19/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Yes, > >> What is the advantage of building this? > > was my question too. If you want a Unix-like version of R on PC hardware > running Windows why not run a Unix-like OS under a virtual machine? > > Quite a lot of the details are wrong: using FLIB

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > Besides Cygwin and VMware there is also the coLinux kernel which is > a native Linux kernel that runs on Windows. I have run R with the AndLinux > distro based on Ubuntu/coLinux/Xming on top of Windows with some success. > It has the advantage that it runs much faster