Re: [R] installation of R/parallel package in win32/64

2010-12-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is simply misinformation. The Rtools distribution does include g++ suitably configured for static linking of libstdc++, and that works for the hundreds of CRAN/BioC packages using C++. And please report bugs in packages to their maintainers, not here. You do not need to include the paths

[R] installation of R/parallel package in win32/64

2010-12-21 Thread Andy Zhu
This is to summarize my workaround to install R/parallel in win32/64 boxes. Recently I had problems to install rparallel: 1. The package's Makevars.win coded include fixed path for Rtools 2. package is written in C++; Rtools and R are not intended to run g++ by default. My workaround: 1. Need t