Windows versus Unix packages in CRAN (Was Re: [R] Rmetrics)

[Janusz Kawczak]

Here is what I get:

R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Version 1.9.0  (2004-04-12), ISBN 3-900051-00-3

>>> .....  <<<
[Previously saved workspace restored]

> library(fBasics)
---------------------------------------------------------------
fLibraries: A SOFTWARE COLLECTION FOR FINANCIAL ENGINEERS
fBasics:    Markets, Basic Statistics, Date and Time
---------------------------------------------------------------
>

(there were no alterations done to the above output except where >>> ....
<<< occurs!)

You simply need to remove the stuff related to MS Win from zzz.R;
in partricular the lines after if( .... ) to clear your message.
As you can see, the info relates to the WinMenu under MS Win.

Hope this helps.

Janusz.

On Fri, 21 May 2004, Andrew Criswell wrote:

> Hello all:
>
> On my linux platform, I ran the commands,
>
> mkdir fBasics
> unzip fBasics.zip -d fBasics
> rm fBasics/src/*.o
> R CMD check fBasics
>
> That was 3 minutes. Next, I copied the files contained in
> fBasics.Rcheck/fBasics to the R library.
>
>  > library(fBasics)
>
> fBasics:    Markets, Basic Statistics, Date and TimeError in
> try(winMenuAdd("Rmetrics")) : couldn't find function "winMenuAdd"
>  >
>
> So, how do I get it to work "with no problems" in Linux??
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
> Janusz Kawczak wrote:
>
> >And it seems that this vicious circle continues forever. Before
> >posting these kind of messages can you please read the INSTRUCTIONS.
> >fBasics_190.10051.zip is a COMPILED version of the package, not
> >a source as you claim to be!
> >
> >It works with no problems; well, at least under Linux.
> >
> >Janusz.
> >
> >"Richard A. O'Keefe" wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> >>        mkdir fBasics
> >>        unzip fBasics.zip -d fBasics
> >>        rm fBasics/src/*.o
> >>        R CMD check fBasics
> >>
> >>        and that took me about 3 minutes.
> >>
> >>Now me, I just did
> >>
> >>        unzip -a fBasics_190.10051.zip
> >>        R CMD INSTALL fBasics
> >>        rm -rf fBasics
> >>
> >>in a naive and trusting manner.  It took me considerably longer than 3
> >>minutes to learn that this was what I should do, and when I did learn,
> >>I wondered "if it's this simple, why can't R CMD INSTALL do it?"
> >>
> >>Now I discover that it isn't that simple.  The installation apparently
> >>went smoothly.  This is R, right?  Never occurred to me that there might
> >>be problems.
> >>
> >>Now, B-G--R!  It turns out that core stuff is supplied as .dll files,
> >>which of course my UltraSPARC can do nothing with.
> >>
> >>The author of the Rmetrics code has a perfect right to provide his code
> >>in any form he wants under any conditions he wants (subject to GPL &c).
> >>In particular, if he wants to provide a distribution which only works under
> >>Windows, that's perfectly OK.
> >>
> >>**BUT** when a distribution is peculiar to one operating system, that really
> >>should be highlighted in big bold letters:  this is a WINDOWS BINARY
> >>version, so that people who can't use Windows .DLL files are spared a day
> >>of trying to figure out how to unpack and of doing an installation which
> >>reports no errors at all and of them finding that things do not work.
> >>
> >>There is *NOTHING* on http://www.itp.phys.ethz.ch/econophysics/R/download.htm
> >>that says "Windows only".  Click on "I accept"and the page you arrive at has
> >>nothing in the text anywhere that says "Windows only" or "what to do if not
> >>Windows".  (The http://.../R/bin/windows/contrib/1.9 address of the page
> >>was, in retrospect, a big clue, sigh.)
> >>
> >>        It would of course be nice if the developers had done
> >>
> >>        R CMD check fBasics
> >>
> >>But if you go into the Sources directory, which I suppose you must have,
> >>for each of {fBasics,fExtremes,fOptions,fSeries} there is an
> >>xxx-00check.log.txt, so they _did_ run R CMD check.
> >>
> >>        and sorted out the errors, then
> >>        R CMD build fBasics
> >>
> >>Those same check logs show errors (like failure to build .dvi files).
> >>
> >>Will it work if I download the Sources packages?
> >>
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