[R] binary versions of packages for Windows

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Kenneth Cabrera wrote:

> subject: help
>
> Prof Dr. Ripley:
>
> Thank you for all you work on this great program.
> I am using R for teaching statistics (basic, spatial and multivariate).
>
> I want to know if you have a list of all the old packages with the
> address of the programers, that will not appear again on the
> windows "contrib" directory.

The packages all appear in the src/contrib directory on CRAN, possibly in
later versions.

> So I would find how can I recompile (if it is necesary) or to
> obtain the binary version of this packages form the creators.

You will need to compile from source, just as on all other platforms.

> I hope the rebuilt you make for the R-1.2.0 in December 2000 will
> work fine on R-1.2.2. too. I will continue to work on this old binary
> version packages until some things will not work as is expected.

I hope so too, but there were never any guarantees.  No one tests all the
packages under each new release, except for 1.2.0.

> I asking you for the address so I can contact the creators if I have any
> problem using the old packages with the new R version (1.2.2.).

The `creators' are those listed on CRAN in the sources.  I am the only
porter to Windows.

The remedy really is quite simple: anyone can get the sources from CRAN and
compile them on Windows.  Since someone else has just pestered me, let me
remind people that the tools you need to do so are fully documented and are
all freely downloadable.  Just get rw102Xsp.zip and read the information
files.

The only difference is that now only about half the packages are available
in pre-compiled form.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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