[R] R CMD build

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Knut Krueger <rh at knut-krueger.de> wrote:
>> Am 20.04.2013 15:50, schrieb Gabor Grothendieck:
>>
>>> Note that there is a separate directory for the 64-bit R executables.
>>
>> Does it make any difference to check and pack the source files iwth 32 or 64
>> bit?
>>
>>> Also, downloading MinGW should not be needed. Rtools already contains the
>>> needed UNIX utilities.
>>
>> Yes indeed it works better than MinGW
>>
>>
>>> You might want to look into the Windows batch files at
>>> http://batchfiles.googlecode.com .
>>
>>
>> At least it would be very helpful for windows user to give the hint to the
>> executable rcmd.exe build ... instead of R cmd build ...
>
> FYI,
>
> R CMD build ...
>
> works just fine on Windows (and I'm sure R cmd build ... won't).
>

That is correct but if one were using the batchfiles I mentioned then both work.

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