[R] Bbuilding R on Win2K

[Prof Brian Ripley]

1) Why not use the current R-1.3.1?

2) You are not getting the right toolset.  Is the Rtools set first in your
path?

3) BUILD=CYGWIN is not really supported: see the comments in
src/gnuwin32/INSTALL.  Check the portal for up-to-date information.

On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Neil Osborne wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I wonder if anyone can help with this challenge. I have recently downloaded
> the R source (R-1.3.0.zip) and its associated buildtools. I have read the
> INSTALL and other related docs. I have modified Makefile (turned of building
> help) and set the BUILD=CYGWIN in MkRules (I believe the documentation
> indicated that these were the variety bundled in the tools.zip file)
>
> However, when I run make, this is what I get
>
> F:\R-1.3.0\src\gnuwin32>make
> mkdir -p ../../bin
> make -C ./fixed
> make[1]: Entering directory `F:/R-1.3.0/src/gnuwin32/fixed'
> sed -e '/^#/d' -e '/Rsockfork/d' -e 's/F77_SUBROUTINE(\(.*\))/  { "\1_",
> \1_},/' -e 's/C_FUNCTION(\(.*\))/{ "\1",        \1 },/' ../../appl/ROU
> TINES > ../FFTab.h
> \1_\",: unexpected EOF while looking for `''
> \1_\",: -c: line 2: syntax error
> make[1]: *** [../FFTab.h] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `F:/R-1.3.0/src/gnuwin32/fixed'
> make: *** [fixfiles] Error 2
>
>
> I have a windows port of Perl (details below)
>     This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for MSWin32-x86
>
>
> I would be very grateful to any one who could point out what's going wrong,
> and what can be done to correct this issue.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> PS :
>
> The OS is Windows 2000 (Version 5.00.21950.)
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