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

[Roger Koenker]

You are right, of course, it would be nice to have notification,
but I'm also sympathetic to Uwe's situation, and not everything
that could be automated, could be _easily_ automated within the
constraints imposed by the rest of world.  The lesson I've drawn
from this is that complaints will appear, and the check directory
does help explain problems.  My real difficulty is that I have
no good way to  explore windows specific problems.  But this is
just the flip side of saying what a great thing it is that
the windows binaries are usually appearing automagically without
any problems!

Roger


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On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Achim Zeileis wrote:

> 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]]
> > >>>
> > >>>______________________________________________
> > >>>R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> > >>>https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> > >>
> > >>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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