[R] Installing packages from source on WindowsXP

[Tyler Smith]

Ok, I uninstalled my copy of HHW (and deleted the extra file from the 
Rtools/bin folder), and reinstalled from the murdoch-sutherland site. 
 From what I read there I think it's the same version, and I actually 
get a warning that I already have a newer version installed on my 
machine (1.3.1) anyways. Just for good measure I installed it to 
C:\HTMLHelpWorkshop, instead of the default location in Program 
Files\HTML Help Workshop, in case the spaces in the folder names was an 
issue. I updated the Path variable and voila, everything seems to be 
working fine. So, whatever the actual problem was, it's gone now. Magic. 
Thanks!!

On a related note, now that I seem to be on top of installing packages 
from source files, is there any advantage to installing the R software 
itself from source files? From the help files that sounds even trickier...

Tyler

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Tyler Smith

PhD Candidate
Department of Plant Science
McGill University
CANADA

tyler.smith at mail.mcgill.ca