[R] install rdcomclient source

[Uwe Ligges]

On 03.05.2011 14:09, Richard Wang wrote:
> Thanks. One more question.  If I use install.packsges, do I need to install Rtool or utils package is sufficient?


It depends on how demanding the package is. For the one you mentioned, 
you will need the Rtools, since C/C++ sources are to be compiled. And it 
won't work out of the box, since some manual tweaks are required - at 
least the last time I tried.

Do you know that the package is available from CRAN extras if form of a 
Windows binary? install.packages() without the type="source"  argument 
should work right away.

Uwe Ligges


> Thanks,
> Richard
>
>
> On 3 May 2011, at 12:26, Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 02.05.2011 23:48, Richard Wang wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to ask a installation question.  I want to install a source code
>>> through the following command,
>>> R CMD INSTALL RDCOMClient
>>
>>
>> This is intended to be used in the shell of your OS (assuming Windows given the package), not in R.
>>
>>  From within R use install.packages("RDCOMClient", type="source") if you really want to install from source.
>>
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>> but get  Error: unexpected symbol in "r cmd"
>>>
>>> Please let know if I miss anything.  I my utils package loaded.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Richard
>>>
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