[R] RJSONIO Installation

[Uwe Ligges]

On 13.04.2013 08:22, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> R CMD build
> will only work on Windows if you have Rtools installed. Visit your local CRAN mirror and read... this is not exactly trivial.

Not exactly true:

pure R code / data packages typically R CMD build and R CMD INSTALL 
without those tools installed. And, if you disable the rebuilt of 
vignettes, R CMD build will always work without the tools installed, ad 
far as I know.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



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> John Henry <johnmghenry at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Trying to install rjsonio and I've run into a couple of issues.
>> 1. When installing from R, it's starts to download, then I get
>> * installing *source* package 'RJSONIO' ...
>> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RJSONIO'
>> * removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.0/library/RJSONIO'
>>
>> 2. I've tried similar steps on the cmd(I'm win7).
>> I receive the same message, starts to install then, configuration
>> failed.
>>
>> 3. Looking into the 'read_me' doc that comes with rjsonio it mentions
>> libjson C libraries.
>> They give a special command if you don't have this installed, which I
>> tried,
>> but it didn't work.
>>
>> At this point I want to generate the libjson libraries to try the other
>> 'read_me' suggestions or just get it to work from R.
>> FYI, on the R CMD I've tried --binary and I've tried --build, neither
>> work.
>> Please help, running out of options.
>>
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