[R] Build Windows binary

[Matthew Fero]

Many thanks.

> nobody else of the 20 authors who submitted packages sent a notice.


I guess that puts me in the top 5th percentile of people unafraid of  
asking stupid questions.

Matthew Fero




On Apr 28, 2009, at 4:10 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:

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> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 27/04/2009 8:35 PM, Matthew Fero wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> I'm trying to use the online resource, http://win-builder.r-  
>>> project.org/ in order to build an R package for colleagues on  
>>> Windows  machines (I'm on Mac OS X).  I'm not getting an email  
>>> response from  the server (even in my junk mail box).   The site  
>>> explains that the  email address is need on the maintainer line in  
>>> the DESCRIPTION  file.  Mine is listed as follows:
>>>
>>> Maintainer: Matthew Fero <mfero at fhcrc.org>
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>> (Oops, hit the wrong button.)
>> I'd suggest asking Uwe Ligges, who maintains win-builder.  I've  
>> cc'd him.
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>
> Thanks,
>
> the problem is that I forgot to make a required change when  
> swicthing to 2.9 and nobody else of the 20 authors who submitted  
> packages sent a notice.
>
> The stuff will work again now and you will get a message within 60  
> minutes for your submitted package.
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>> If it turns out there's something incompatible between your package  
>> and his system, an alternative is to put your package on R-forge;  
>> it also does binary builds for Windows.
>> Duncan Murdoch