[R] Building R on Windows

[Göran Broström]

I got several answers to this problem, all of them from Brian Ripley!
Brian pointed out an error in an earlier patched version and also told 
me that some messages about ignored errors were harmless. After that,
and after some trial and error (you really have to follow the instruction
_exactly_), I succeeded in building today's patched version (2002-01-15).

If someone is interested in grabbing it,  SetupR.exe  can be found at

http://capa.stat.umu.se/~gb/MLife
   
where you also will find my  R  package  'MLife', which is a complement to
'survival', in fact it depends on  survival. It can perform sampling of
survivors in risk sets and include external covariates (calendar time 
series) in an easy manner. There are also some utility functions that
create rectangular 'cuts' in the  Lexis  diagram, so you can analyse age
specific 'event histories' for a given calendar time period with 'coxph'
in survival, etc, etc. Try it! Comments are welcome.

Many thanks to Brian!

Göran

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Göran Broström wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build R on Windows 2000 with R-patched_2002-01-12.tar.gz
> and, following Brian Ripley's good introduction to the field, I manage to 
> make everything except the very last 'make' in 'gnuwin32/installer',
> which builds the installer. I get:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ...........
> echo "make.packages.html(.Library)" | rw1041/bin/rterm --vanilla --slave
> NULL
> Warning message:
> cannot update HTML package index in: make.packages.html(.Library)
> 
> cp rw1041/doc/html/packages.html rw1041w/rw1041/doc/html
> cp: cannot stat `rw1041/doc/html/packages.html': No such file or directory
> make: *** [R.iss] Error 1
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Obviously the file 'packages.html' is missing, so I assume I must have
> made a mistake earlier in the lengthy process, but I have no idea where it
> can be. Any hints would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Göran
> 
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