[R] (no subject)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Usman Shehu wrote:

> It is possible I run R on MINGW32 MSYS? If so how do I configure the MSYS to do that. 

MSYS is an environment for building Unix packages under Windows.  R runs
under Windows:  you don't need Unix-emulation tools to run it.

We have a much more reliable set of Unix-emulation tools to build 
it, selected from Cygwin (of which MSYS is a derivative, anyway).

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595