[Rd] Change of compiler for Windows build of R

[Peter Dalgaard]

Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> Thanks to both of you! /Henrik
>
> On 8/15/07, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
>   
>> On 8/14/2007 2:52 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>     
>>> The MinGW people have finally released a couple of builds of gcc 4.2.1
>>>       
Seconded. In particular, can we have a big round of applause for this bit:
>>  It also includes Vanilla Perl,
>> so finally Rtools.exe is all you need to build packages on Windows.
>>     
Yay! People doing statistical computing classes rejoice! Getting the 
tools lined up properly has been a major stumbling block.

>> (You probably want to get the Microsoft help compiler and some LaTeX,
>> but these are not strictly necessary.)
>>     
(Can't win'em all. So Sweave still requires some work.)