pre-compiled win binaries (was: Re: [R] Quantreg Package)

[Achim Zeileis]

It happened for the second time in a week that a Windows binary for a 
CRAN package was not availabe (Hmisc and quantreg) although the 
package maintainer would have been willing to try to fix the problems 
that prevented automatic pre-compilation if he would have realized 
that there is a problem on Windows.
Of course, the information was provided on CRAN, but I thought that it 
might help to automatically notify the package maintainers if some 
conflicts occur on Windows. I would appreciate such a notification if 
one of my packages would have failed to compile...and it is not very 
unlikely that I wouldn't have discovered it myself.

I already asked Uwe privately and he would be willing to provide a 
notification but maybe there are concerns or objections from the 
maintainers?

best,
Z


On Thursday 23 October 2003 17:28, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> Radaelli Paolo - Dottorati di Ricerca wrote:
> > I saw the read-me but I didn't undersstand wich is the problem. I
> > only know that in a previous version of R I installed on my pc it
> > was all ok.
>
> Yes, but on the recent version it is *not* OK.
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/check/quantreg-che
>ck.log tells you:
>
>   [...]
>   * checking examples ... ERROR
>   Running examples in quantreg-Ex.R failed.
>
> BTW: Efforts have been made to upload these check logs to CRAN in
> order to provide you with this information, so please read those
> files!
>
>
> Looking closer (as a hint for Roger), R *crashes* when running the
> examples in ?boot.rq.
>
> > So know I have to download the extensions files and then compile
> > them on my own ?
>
> You can download the source package and compile from source (I don't
> know of any "extensions files").
> Attention: The problem not passing Rcmd check remains (almost
> certain).
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
> > Thank you
> > Paolo Radaelli
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Uwe Ligges" <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
> > To: "Radaelli Paolo - Dottorati di Ricerca"
> > <paolo.radaelli at unimib.it> Cc: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: [R] Quantreg Package
> >
> >>Radaelli Paolo - Dottorati di Ricerca wrote:
> >>>I've just installed R 1.0.8 (for Windows) and I tried to install
> >>> the
> >
> > package Quantreg directly from Cran but it's not in the list of
> > downlodable packages.
> >
> >>>I tried also downloading the zip file and then install it but
> >>> there is
> >
> > an error.
> >
> >>>How can I do it?
> >>>Thank you
> >>>[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> >>>
> >>>______________________________________________
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> >>
> >>CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/ReadMe tells you that Windows
> >> binaries of those packages not passing Rcmd check are not
> >> published on CRAN. And the corresponding Status file and
> >> check-log tells you quantreg is among those packages.
> >>
> >>So you have to compile from source yourself.
> >>
> >>Uwe Ligges
>
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