[R-sig-Geo] need a Windows binary for Rcartogram from omegahat

[Mark Daniel Ward]

Dear Alex,

Thank you for your suggestion.  I would be pleased to know more.  This is not an
"optimal" solution, but it might satisfy the students who are on Windows
machines.  I'll send you a PM.

Mark



Quoting Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>:

> Mark Daniel Ward wrote:
> > Greetings!  I'm about to have a lab for my students using the Rcartogram
> > library.
> > 
> > I cannot get the Rcartogram library installed on the Windows PC's,
> > because they do not have the fftw library pre-installed.  To compile
> > from source, the students also appear to need to have several auxiliary
> > pieces of software installed (such as basics, including perl and bash
> > and gcc).  This is perhaps too much to expect from my students.  (I have
> > these on my Mac, but they will not have them on their Windows computers.)
> > 
> > Has anyone already built a Windows binary of the Rcartogram library that
> > includes the fftw as part of the installation?  I checked earlier in the
> > year on the mailing lists, and the answer was negative, but I'm very
> > eager to know if anyone can help in this regard.  We are failing
> > miserably at building the Windows source for Rcartogram.
> > 
> > Thank you in advance for any quick advice that you can offer.  I
> > appreciate it very much.
> > 
> > P.S.  The computer staff already installed the fftw library for me on
> > the Mac OS X lab computers using the following commands, suggested
> > kindly to me on the R for Mac mailing list:
> > curl -O http://r.research.att.com/libs/fftw-3.2.2-darwin9-bin4.tar.gz
> > sudo tar fvxz fftw-3.2.2-darwin9-bin4.tar.gz -C /
> > Afterwards, I am able to successfully install the Rcartogram library
> > from source using:
> > install.packages("Rcartogram", repos = "http://www.omegahat.org/R", type
> > = "source")
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> 
> 
> As an indirect answer/back-up plan if you can't get the windows mess
> built you could try the latest Live GIS DVD/Virtual Machine from OSGeo.
> http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/
> 
> VirtualBox, VMWarePlayer etc are all available for free to run the vm on
> a windows desktop.
> 
> R is already installed, and if you can do the library install once on
> the vm before giving it to the students or provide a script to the
> install I can help you make sure it works.
> 
> Alex
>