pre-compiled win binaries (was: Re: [R] Quantreg Package)

[Uwe Ligges]

FYI: quantreg_3.32.tar.gz passes Rcmd check on Windows and the binary
will be on CRAN within a couple of days (I don't know when CRAN master
mirrors my archives again, because of the announced shutdown).

I will try to get automated e-mails to package maintainers of
"erroneous" (in Windows) packages into my scripts. An announcement to
all package maintainers will follow in a couple of days.

Uwe

Roger Koenker wrote:
> 
> You are right, of course, it would be nice to have notification,
> but I'm also sympathetic to Uwe's situation, and not everything
> that could be automated, could be _easily_ automated within the
> constraints imposed by the rest of world.  The lesson I've drawn
> from this is that complaints will appear, and the check directory
> does help explain problems.  My real difficulty is that I have
> no good way to  explore windows specific problems.  But this is
> just the flip side of saying what a great thing it is that
> the windows binaries are usually appearing automagically without
> any problems!
> 
> Roger
> 
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> 
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Achim Zeileis wrote:
> 
> > It happened for the second time in a week that a Windows binary for a
> > CRAN package was not availabe (Hmisc and quantreg) although the
> > package maintainer would have been willing to try to fix the problems
> > that prevented automatic pre-compilation if he would have realized
> > that there is a problem on Windows.
> > Of course, the information was provided on CRAN, but I thought that it
> > might help to automatically notify the package maintainers if some
> > conflicts occur on Windows. I would appreciate such a notification if
> > one of my packages would have failed to compile...and it is not very
> > unlikely that I wouldn't have discovered it myself.
> >
> > I already asked Uwe privately and he would be willing to provide a
> > notification but maybe there are concerns or objections from the
> > maintainers?
> >
> > best,
> > Z
> >
> >
> > On Thursday 23 October 2003 17:28, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> >
> > > Radaelli Paolo - Dottorati di Ricerca wrote:
> > > > I saw the read-me but I didn't undersstand wich is the problem. I
> > > > only know that in a previous version of R I installed on my pc it
> > > > was all ok.
> > >
> > > Yes, but on the recent version it is *not* OK.
> > > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/check/quantreg-che
> > >ck.log tells you:
> > >
> > >   [...]
> > >   * checking examples ... ERROR
> > >   Running examples in quantreg-Ex.R failed.
> > >
> > > BTW: Efforts have been made to upload these check logs to CRAN in
> > > order to provide you with this information, so please read those
> > > files!
> > >
> > >
> > > Looking closer (as a hint for Roger), R *crashes* when running the
> > > examples in ?boot.rq.
> > >
> > > > So know I have to download the extensions files and then compile
> > > > them on my own ?
> > >
> > > You can download the source package and compile from source (I don't
> > > know of any "extensions files").
> > > Attention: The problem not passing Rcmd check remains (almost
> > > certain).
> > >
> > > Uwe Ligges
> > >
> > > > Thank you
> > > > Paolo Radaelli
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Uwe Ligges" <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
> > > > To: "Radaelli Paolo - Dottorati di Ricerca"
> > > > <paolo.radaelli at unimib.it> Cc: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:44 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [R] Quantreg Package
> > > >
> > > >>Radaelli Paolo - Dottorati di Ricerca wrote:
> > > >>>I've just installed R 1.0.8 (for Windows) and I tried to install
> > > >>> the
> > > >
> > > > package Quantreg directly from Cran but it's not in the list of
> > > > downlodable packages.
> > > >
> > > >>>I tried also downloading the zip file and then install it but
> > > >>> there is
> > > >
> > > > an error.
> > > >
> > > >>>How can I do it?
> > > >>>Thank you
> > > >>>[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> > > >>>
> > > >>>______________________________________________
> > > >>>R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> > > >>>https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> > > >>
> > > >>CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/ReadMe tells you that Windows
> > > >> binaries of those packages not passing Rcmd check are not
> > > >> published on CRAN. And the corresponding Status file and
> > > >> check-log tells you quantreg is among those packages.
> > > >>
> > > >>So you have to compile from source yourself.
> > > >>
> > > >>Uwe Ligges
> > >
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