[R] How to install old randomForest?

[David Scott]

Julian Ramirez wrote:
> Hi Ted,
> 
> You need to unzip and untar the files that are inside that file, and then
> build the package using R CMD build --binary PackageName. However, for
> compiling a package under a windows environment you will need Rtools2.10
> from Duncan Murdoch, along with Miktex, and html workshop from microsoft.
> All that is free. I suggest you to read tutorials on how to build packages
> from sources in Windows. This website might be a good start point
> http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~kbroman/Rintro/Rwinpack.html.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> 
> Julian Ramirez
> Research Assistant
> International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, CIAT
> 
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Chang, C-Y. <changcy.mlml at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm using windowsXP and R 2.10.0. I downloaded "randomForest 4.5-33.tar.gz"
>> from its archive, but how do I make it into a installation ZIP file?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ted

As an alternative guide to the build process, have a look at Rob 
Hyndman's instructions:

http://robjhyndman.com/researchtips/building-r-packages-for-windows/

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