[R] rsync

[Erich Neuwirth]

Seth Falcon wrote:

>>I am now downloading r-devel to compile it on windows XP. The CRAN
>>source code page says "you will prefere to use rsync". I am googling 
>>around, and cannot find anything about rsync on windows. 
>>    
>>
>
>You can use rsync on Windows via the Cygwin toolset (see
>www.cygwin.com).  
>  
>

If you do that and also want to use Brian Ripley's toolkit for compiling,
you might get into trouble because of incompatible versions of
cygwin1.dll

I managed to get a working solution by using rsync from

http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/help/rsync/rsync_pc1.html

and putting rsync.exe into the directory with brian's binaries (sed, 
grep, diff ...)
this rsync vversion can work with brian's version of cygwin1.dll.