[R] Problem with package development

[Sarah Goslee]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Nipesh Bajaj <bajaj141003 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is how strange? How and from where I would know that I need to
> install something pdflatex separately? Can you point some legitimate
> link which says I need to install that (like Rtools?) Even this link
> 'http://www.math.rug.nl/~trentelman/jacob/pdflatex/pdflatex.html' do
> not provide any download link.

This is what I wrote:

>> If you don't have non-R code (c or fortran) you can probably get away
>> without having the MinGW compiler tools, but you do need the rest of
>> the things listed in the admin manual as required for building
>> packages:
>> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#The-Windows-toolset

If you don't recognize the official r-project.org R-admin manual as a legitimate
link then I'm afraid I also can't help you any further since there is nothing
more legitimate than the official documentation.

Sarah

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