[Rd] Trouble running Rtools31 on Wine

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 13-11-13 5:38 AM, Kirill Müller wrote:
> Hi
>
> An attempt to use R and Rtools in Wine fails, see the bug report to Wine:
>
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34865
>
> The people there say that Rtools uses an outdated Cygwin DLL with a
> custom patch. Is there any chance we can upgrade our Cygwin DLL to a
> supported upstream version? Thanks.

Rtools doesn't use any special Cygwin dlls.  The one in the current 
distribution is rather old, so if it doesn't work in Wine, just go to 
the Cygwin site and install a newer Cygwin version.  (Not sure if this 
is easy in Wine, but you could do it on a Windows machine, and copy the 
files over.)

Duncan Murdoch