[R] Building an R package under Windows NT

[Benjamin.STABLER@odot.state.or.us]

I finally figured out the problem.  I went ahead and installed Perl 5.8 but
that didn't do it.  The problem was that an existing program's directory was
earlier in the PATH and so one (or more) of the components of the "Rcmd
INSTALL" was an older version.  It wasn't zip since I renamed the old zip.
Anyway, thanks for your help.

Regards,
Ben Stabler

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:48 AM
>To: STABLER Benjamin
>Subject: RE: [R] Building an R package under Windows NT
>
>
>On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 Benjamin.STABLER at odot.state.or.us wrote:
>
>> Professor Ripley,
>> 
>> I just downloaded and installed the most current tools from your site
>> (http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/), I have version 
>5.005_02 of Perl,
>> and I still get the same error.  Do you think Perl 5.8 would 
>*fix* this
>> problem?
>
>I have no idea, but I do know that correcting all of *your* 
>errors would 
>solve the problem.  As that version of Perl was AFAIK never 
>released for 
>Windows (and has not been available for several years if it 
>was), I think 
>you need to try to follow the instructions *exactly* (which 
>you have not 
>done re Perl, which says
>
>  The Windows port of perl5, available via
>  http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/.
>  BEWARE: you do need the *Windows* port and not the Cygwin one.
>
>).
> 
>> I didn't think the docs=html option would work as I got the 
>html option from
>> the Rdconv type=TYPE help since the build help does not list 
>the options.  I
>> didn't think to look at the install help.
>
>Why do you think --type (sic) takes the same values as --docs ?
>
>
>-- 
>Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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