[R] Source package installation for WinXPpro

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 Phguardiol at aol.com wrote:

> Hi
> I d like to compile the source code from last Affy package for WinXPpro under 
> R18beta
> however the doc is pretty poor regarding this process...

Or possibly you have failed to find the documentation.

> I went to FAQ R Win then to http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/ and 
> downloaded in The essentials, tools and Perl 5.8.0, then MingW from www.mingw.org and 
> I wonder if I need any other stuff from this page ? I m not sure but I dont 
> think I need the cross-conpilers ? what about the others below ? Then I 
> installed MingW and Perl.
> Then what am i suposed to do....?

Read the documentation, starting with file readme.packages in the R 
distribution.

> If I click on Rcmd I dont get any windows to open or just for a second...

And where in the documentation does it tell you to do that?

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