[R] building a package under windows

[Uwe Ligges]

Tobias Sing wrote:

> As an alternative to building the package under Windows you might go for the 
> quick-and-dirty solution suggested by Peter Dalgaard a while ago on this 
> list: simply zip the installed Linux package. The package can be installed 
> under Windows using this zip file (worked fine for me with R 1.9.1).

But only under some restrictions! DLLs won't be build (i.e. it won't 
work for packages containing C or Fortran code) and not all help files 
will be generated (e.g. compiled html).

Uwe Ligges


> Here is the original posting:
> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/06/1555.html
> Good luck,
>   Tobias.
> 
> On Monday 25 October 2004 19:10, Gilles GUILLOT wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have a package of my own which seems to work fine under linux.
>>I want to make a compiled version for windows.
>>(I work with windows 2000 and R 2.0
>>[...]
> 
> 
> 
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