[R] R CMD build

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sat Apr 20 15:50:41 CEST 2013


On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Knut Krueger <rh at knut-krueger.de> wrote:
> I was looking for the problem at least two days.. and just after writing to
> the list I found rcmd.exe in the
> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.15.2\bin\i386 directory.
> install
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/?source=dlp
> chage the path variable of windows and set the path in front of the others
> C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin\
>
> problems with windows 7 :
> Rund the cmd console as administrator and it is working
>
> Maybe anybody can add this to
> http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/utils/html/PkgUtils.html
>

Note that there is a separate directory for the 64-bit R executables.
Also, downloading MinGW should not be needed.  Rtools already contains
the needed UNIX utilities.

You might want to look into the Windows batch files at
http://batchfiles.googlecode.com .

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