[R] Installing on Windows packages build on Unix

[Wolski]

Hallo Giovanni!

You have to build a windows package on linux/unix.

cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/cross-build.pdf

Eryk


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On 6/25/2004 at 11:10 AM Giovanni Petris wrote:

>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I wanted to share with a colleague a few R functions that I wrote. To
>>>this purpose, I created a small package on my machine (Unix) and
>>>emailed it to her. Now she is having troubles installing the package
>>>on her Windows machine. It seems that on her side, install.packages
>>>looks for a "zip" file - while I have created a "tar.gz" file. I tried
>>>to build the package with the --use-zip options but that didn't work. 
>>>
>>>Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>TIA,
>>>Giovanni
>>>
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