[R] How to install old randomForest?

[Uwe Ligges]

Note that all these instructions are outdated since there is no chm help 
support for R-2.10.x, for example. Please use the R Installation and 
Administration manual as the reference.

Best wishes,
Uwe Ligges




On 14.01.2010 06:10, David Scott wrote:
> 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/
>
> David Scott
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