[Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

[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
<simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
>
> 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 explicit we have to make it...)
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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 instructions to perform such a source install?
>>> | - I assume one still needs MiKTeX -- is that right?
>>> | - is the source install done from a tar.gz (in which case one would
>>> | need tar to create it) or directly from the source directory tree?
>>>
>>> You may want to stick this
>>>
>>>     http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel
>>>
>>> into your RSS reader so that you get daily summaries of changes.
>>>
>>> I don't follow this too religiously (as I typically only built r-devel
>>> once we have
>>> alpha/beta/rc candidates) but even I am aware that
>>>
>>>     a) dynamic .Rd conversion at runtime, so Miktex may no longer be
>>> needed
>>>
>>>     b) untgz.exe on Windows to read (compressed) tarballs
>>>
>>> Dirk
>>>
>>> --
>>> Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
>>>
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