[R] RCMD check error windows

[Uwe Ligges]

Patrick Giraudoux wrote:
> Dear Uwe,
> 
>> Is this a full installation of R (I guess you have not compiled it 
>> yourself)? If yes, does gcc, perl and friends work?
>> In the first place, libR.a must be compiled at this point which should 
>> happen automatically.
>> But it is really hard to say which of the tools fails exactly.
>>
>> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> I have just intalled R 2.1.0 pre-compiled from CRAN and I can confirm 
> this is a full installation. R works wonderfully well (as usual). Perl 
> at least work since I have built 'simple' packages since long through 
> it, without any problem. John Fox's scripts helped a lot at the 
> beginning and now I write the code RCMD... directly. However, I don't 
> now about gcc and I don't remember to have installed something like this 
> and even how it should be done...   Is there a place where I could  find 
> and check step-by-step the sequence of what must be done for get and 
> appropriate environment installation under Windows XP?
> 
> 
> 


Ah! See R-2.1.0's version of the manual "R Installation and 
Administration", Sections "Installing R under Windows" and in particular 
Appendix E "The Windows toolset".

Uwe Ligges