Hi Thomas,

Thank you so much for offering to make the package, you are a life saver!
Many of the public health colleagues I work with here in Afghanistan (and
I'm sure in neighbouring Iran) face the same issue, so the date conversion
package will be much appreciated.

Thanks again,
Amy

P.s. - for my own education, if you develop teaching materials about how to
compile the package I would love to have a read through and see how it's
done.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Amy Mikhail wrote:
>
>
>  Forgive my ignorance on this, I have windows XP, so how do I get started -
>> have not sourced code before in R so do I just copy all the files in the
>> below directory to my R library and then source convdates.R from there or?
>>
>>
> Unfortunately it's a bit more complicated than that.  The C code needs to
> be compiled. If you have never used C then you *so* do not want to set this
> up under Windows.
>
> It sounds as though a package is needed (since then Uwe Ligges' autobuilder
> will build it for you).  I will make a package.   At least I can use this as
> an example in teaching R.
>
>     -thoams
>
>
> Thomas Lumley                   Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
> tlumley@u.washington.edu        University of Washington, Seattle
>
>
>


-- 
Amy Mikhail
Program Manager, ACTc Afghanistan Malaria Project
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
HPRO, Charahi-e-Shahid, Shar-e-Naw, Kabul, Afghanistan

Email (Afg): amy.mikhail@googlemail.com
Email (UK): Amy.Mikhail@lshtm.ac.uk
Tel (Afg): +93 (0)706 126627
Tel (UK): +44 (0)781 4176107

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

