Re: [R] Cygwin and Rtools

2008-03-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You need Rtools and not Cygwin. In particular, the make is different, and the Cygwin one will not work. I don't know where the confusion comes from: nothing in the R documentation suggests using Cygwin. I believe that these days when Cygwin is installed it does not put itself in the Windows p

Re: [R] Cygwin and Rtools

2008-03-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
David Scott wrote: > I have just got a new machine and had a basic cygwin installed before it > was given to me. It didn't include make. Previously I have installed > Rtools to build packages and now I have got myself a bit confused as to > whether to just install make from the cygwin packages o