[Rd] Windows binary packages & R-Forge

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please report this to R-forge, not here -- it is not an R development 
issue (as e.g. R itself and the CRAN packages are being built).

It looks like they don't have the correct Rtools (27 or 28) installed.

You can use win-builder to get a Windows binary built.

On Wed, 7 May 2008, Yohan Chalabi wrote:

> Hi room,
>
> There seems to be a problem with the Windows building machines of
> R-Forge. All our packages with Fortran source code cannot be compiled
> for Windows. The error in the log file is
>
> make[3]: gfortran: Command not found
>
> It seems that gfortran is not installed. Is there any plan to fix this
> or am I doing something wrong on R-Forge?
>
> thanks in advance for your advises.
>
> regards,
> Yohan
>
> -- 
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