[Rd] Windows Source Install Without Rtools

[Gabor Grothendieck]

I meant to write:

Rcmd INSTALL --build myPackage/

vs.

Rcmd INSTALL myPackage/

You, yourself, have mentioned the problem of linking help
pages on r-devel within the last few months:

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e6/devel/09/05/1721.html

and now that this is all changing it would be helpful to have comments
on what now works best on Windows with the new change.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>
>> Does that mean that
>>
>>   Rcmd INSTALL --binary myPackage/
>>
>> is still ok or should one use:
>>
>
> No, that has never worked.  Please follow Simon's advice, and read the
> manual.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>   Rcmd INSTALL myPackage/
>>
>> without --binary and is this advice the same with and without Rtools?
>>
>> Also, as there is potential confusion here could the combinations of flags
>> that are not recommended result in a warning? In the latter case at least
>> one knows right off that its not the thing to do and can immediately abort
>> and try something else if they don't want to suffer the consequences of
>> bad help linking.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 17/09/2009 5:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 17/09/2009 4:40 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe on other platforms but on Windows
>>>>> help does not get linked properly with all
>>>>> variations.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think you are thinking of building binaries, not installing packages.
>>>>  Generally the only variation we advise against is
>>>>
>>>> R CMD build --binary
>>>>
>>>> Everything else should work fine, as far as I know.
>>>>
>>>
>>> And I forgot to add:  the way HTML help is handled in the upcoming 2.10.0
>>> is
>>> different, so I suspect R CMD build --binary will work.  I haven't tested
>>> it
>>> though...
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Simon Urbanek
>>>>> <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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