[Rd] trouble building r-devel

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:32:33 +0100, Uwe Ligges
>> <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote :
>> 
>> 
>>> Mark.Bravington at csiro.au wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Thanks Seth (and Duncan)-- the murdoch-sutherland page seems to fix
>>>> everything. The slimmed-down INSTALL file in R-devel src gnuwin32
>>>> doesn't refer to the page-- it might be good to add a reference.
>>> 
>>> Mark,
>>> 
>>> I disagree.
>>> This "slimmed-down" file points you to the thorough Chapter "Installing R 
>>> under Windows" in the "`R Installation and Administration' manual in the 
>>> doc/manual directory". Quite at the top of Section "Building from source" 
>>> there is the Subsection "Getting the tools".
>>> 
>>> I think we do NOT want to point people to Duncan's page at first, or they 
>>> would not read the more comprehensive manual any more.
>> 
>> 
>> This is a problem that is hopefully temporary.  Once 2.1.0 is out, it
>> will be reasonable to expect most Windows users to have installed the
>> binary version and have the manual available, the manual will be
>> available online, etc.  However, right now a source download only gets
>> the Texinfo source for the manual.
>
> The R-devel manual is online availabe at
> http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/
> so even this is not a big problem.

The HTML version of R-admin _is_ in the source tarballs: only if you get 
this by SubVersion will you be reduced to the texinfo version.  (And the 
top-level INSTALL file tells you that: I will repeat it in the 
src/gnuwin32/INSTALL file.)

Hence the comments in another part of the thread about getting the alpha 
tarballs and reading the documentation there.  (Since I have been away for 
a few days I have not checked the alpha tarballs, but I have checked the 
snapshots several times.)

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