[Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

[Simon Urbanek]

On Sep 17, 2009, at 16:09 , Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

> Note that that is not currently the recommended way.
>

Now that would be a surprise to me - to quote R-admin: 6.3.1: "R CMD  
INSTALL works in Windows to install source packages if you have the  
source-code package files".


> Also, what comes after INSTALL? The source .tar.gz name?
> The pathname to the source directory?
>


R CMD INSTALL --help

Usage: R CMD INSTALL [options] pkgs

Install the add-on packages specified by pkgs.  The elements of pkgs can
be relative or absolute paths to directories with the package (bundle)
sources, or to gzipped package 'tar' archives.  The library tree
[...]

Cheers,
S


> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Simon Urbanek
> <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 17, 2009, at 12:43 , Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks. Perhaps someone in the core group can
>>> still provide explicit information on how to install such
>>> a package.
>>>
>>
>> R CMD INSTALL
>>
>> (see R --help and it has been *the* way to install packages for  
>> quite a
>> while so I'm not sure how more explicit we have to make it...)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 17 September 2009 at 11:32, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>>> | Regarding this from this week:
>>>> |
>>>> | 2.10.0 PACKAGE INSTALLATION (Windows)
>>>> | It is possible to install source packages without Rtools  
>>>> provided they
>>>> | have no compiled code and no configure.win or cleanup.win script.
>>>> |
>>>> | - what are the instructions to perform such a source install?
>>>> | - I assume one still needs MiKTeX -- is that right?
>>>> | - is the source install done from a tar.gz (in which case one  
>>>> would
>>>> | need tar to create it) or directly from the source directory  
>>>> tree?
>>>>
>>>> You may want to stick this
>>>>
>>>>     http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel
>>>>
>>>> into your RSS reader so that you get daily summaries of changes.
>>>>
>>>> I don't follow this too religiously (as I typically only built r- 
>>>> devel
>>>> once we have
>>>> alpha/beta/rc candidates) but even I am aware that
>>>>
>>>>     a) dynamic .Rd conversion at runtime, so Miktex may no longer  
>>>> be
>>>> needed
>>>>
>>>>     b) untgz.exe on Windows to read (compressed) tarballs
>>>>
>>>> Dirk
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
>>>>
>>>
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