[Rd] Trying to compile R 3.5.2 - 32 bit R - on Windows 10 64 bit - with ICU support

[Jeroen Ooms]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 11:13 AM Andre Mikulec
<andre_mikulec using hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to compile R with ICU support.

Are you aware that the default R for Windows installation from CRAN
has ICU support?

> I am following
> https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Building-from-source

These instructions are unfortunately outdated. The scripts and
instructions used to build the current version of R for Windows can be
found here: https://github.com/rwinlib/base#readme

> I have downloaded and extracted
> https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/goodies/ICU_531.zip

That build of ICU was for the previous toolchain (up to R 3.2.5). You
need to use the ICU build which is included with Rtools (if you
checked the icu checkbox during the Rtools installation). The scripts
mentioned above will do this automatically.