[R] Building R packages in Windows 7

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Thu Feb 25 15:43:40 CET 2010


On 25/02/2010 9:06 AM, Eric Ferreira wrote:
> Dear useRs,
>
> I'm having trouble building R packages in Windows 7 regarding HTML help
> Workshop.
> Pointing PATH to c:\Program Files\HTML help Workshop does work in Windows
> (e.g. Vista) and does not in Windows 7.
>
> Some tips??
>   

We don't use the HTML Help Workshop any more since R 2.10.0, so you 
could upgrade to the current R, and the problem will go away.  
Otherwise, I think you'll have to ask Microsoft for help.  But they 
aren't likely to be helpful:  Win XP is the most recent OS listed as 
supported.

Duncan Murdoch



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