On 11/07/13 17:57, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On 11/07/2013 01:22, David Winsemius wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 10, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Lucy Leigh wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I have had a look at the manual but it makes no sense to me. I have
>>> downloaded RTools, and the InnoSetup,
>>> but I don't understand how to use these to install my package? Am I
>>> meant to be writing commands
>>> in R itself, or in these other things I've downloaded?
>>
>> Since you are clearly out of your league with respect to compiling 
>> from source, now is the time to ask (again), why are you not 
>> installing the binary package?
>>
>> At the R command line just type:
>>
>> install.packages("PReMiuM")  # should default to type="win.binary" 
>> and use a CRAN mirror
>>
>
> Or as she seems to want to use a later version than on CRAN, to ask 
> again why she does not use winbuilder.
>
>
But the winbuilder web page explicitly says:

> Please do not upload packages of other maintainers (particularly not 
> without changing the Maintainer field to your own e-mail address, if 
> you have permissions to do that), because the maintainer indicated in 
> the maintainer field of the DESCRIPTION file get response from us. 
> Please do not upload BioConductor packages or CRAN packages. Both 
> BioConductor and CRAN do have build systems. If BioConductor or CRAN 
> packages are not available for Windows, there is a certainly a reason 
> and also this service won't be able to build the package properly.

So it would appear that it is *not* advisable for Ms. Leigh to use 
winbuilder.

     cheers,

         Rolf


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