[R] instal tar.gz package on windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

In apparently a late response to

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-July/169578.html

on Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Andrew Harris wrote:

> For cross-building a mature package, I stumbled across a convenient utility 
> provided by the R Windows maintainer:
> _http://win-builder.r-project.org/

It is in both the 'Writing R Extensions' and 'R Installation and 
Administration' manuals, so do we take it you have not yet 'stumbled 
across' those?

There's lots of useful information in the R manuals!

> _This takes a little while, so for iteration it is much better to install the 
> Rtools, but for a package or two it is great.
>
> Best,
> Andrew Harris, Univ. Maryland
>
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