AW: [R] running Rcmd INSTALL: working now!

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, RINNER Heinrich wrote:

> I almost didn't believe in it anymore, but Rcmd INSTALL finally is working
> for me!
> Thanks to all who helped on this, especially to Guido Masarotto, Brian
> Ripley, John Fox, Peter Dalgaard, Uwe Ligges.
> 
> Anyway, I do think the documentation is a bit confusing here (at least for
> me, I don't know if others have felt the same). It might be a good idea to
> add the essence of Brians and Guidos replies to the "Simple ports" section
> of readme.packages ?

Well, you did not come close to following the instructions, and
mix-and-match just will not work.

The "Simple ports" section for 1.2.1 have a new target make pkgnoC-mypkg,
and do work.  Rcmd INSTALL will still need the compiler installed, as the
instructions say.

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