I was able to extract RGoogleDocs with 7-zip. That was when I began to
appreciate the gravity of what Prof Ripley was saying. I am on a windows xp
machine and the RGoogleDocs download does not have a windows binary version.
Instead it has only a source package. I started using the R-admin manual to
step through the process and got nowhere in about 45 minutes. Then I tried
using the "automated package building
service<http://win-builder.r-project.org/>you could try." and got
nowhere because I did not know what "R CMD build" is.
Can I find someone to do it for me or can I find someone who will give me a
couple of basic steps at a time?

I am desperate to say goodbye to individual static Microsoft Access or
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets being the repository for my data.

Farrel Buchinsky
Sent from: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States.


>>
> Yes, you can install source packages on Windows: the R-admin manual gives
> you a detailed guide to the tools that you will need to do so.  It even
> tells you about an automated package building service you could try.
> RGoogleDocs depends on RCurl and XML, both of which I provide Windows
> binaries for (and are much trickier to install because of their external
> software requirements).
>
>
>  Farrel Buchinsky
>> GrandCentral Tel: (412) 567-7870
>>
>
> --
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>

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