[R] Problem with running installed package on Windows

[Gabor Csardi]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 08:58:50AM -0800, James Ferguson wrote:
> Uwe, thanks for your response.  The version of R was 2.6.1 and the version
> of the package is the most recent 2.2-13.  As mentioned, it works fine on
> OS X but not on Windows XP.  I will try using Rtools (from Duncan
> Murdoch's site) and install manually using the .zip file.  Any other
> ideas?

You don't need Rtools to install from the .zip file. .zip files are 
binary packages, only R is needed to install them:

Rcmd install ....

Rtools is only needed for compiling packages and/or R from source.
Just before you start installing Rtools.....

Gabor

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