[Rd] R 2.12.0 doesn't install properly under Windows Vista

[Duncan Murdoch]

Hodgess, Erin wrote:
> Dear R Developers:
>  
> I'm having the same trouble (no Rgui.exe) when compiling from source.
>  
> This is on a Windows XP with the latest Rtools.
>   

That is a different problem.  I was never missing Rgui.exe in the 
compiles I did; I just made a mistake that stopped it from being 
included in the installer.

So you'll need to debug what's going wrong in your build process that 
stops Rgui.exe from being built.

Duncan Murdoch

>  
> Sorry to be a pest.
> Thanks,
> Erin
>  
>  
> Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
>  
>
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> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of Duncan Murdoch
> Sent: Sat 10/16/2010 6:01 PM
> To: Dominick Samperi
> Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] R 2.12.0 doesn't install properly under Windows Vista
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> On 16/10/2010 4:55 PM, Dominick Samperi wrote:
>   
>> After installing R 2.12.0 under windows Vista it does not start because it
>> cannot
>> find Rgui.exe. Indeed, the contents of R\R-2.12.0\bin are:
>>
>> config.sh
>> R.exe
>> Rscript.exe
>> Sd2Rd.pl
>>
>> It appears that a few things are missing...
>>     
>
> The original build was missing the contents of bin/i386, which is where
> 32 bit binaries are stored now.  A new build has been done, and it will
> eventually make it to CRAN and the mirrors.
>
> Check the date on the bottom of the bin/windows/base page on CRAN:
> 2010-10-15 is bad, 2010-10-16 is good (as far as I know).
>
> Duncan Murdoch
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