Note that that is not currently the recommended way. Also, what comes after INSTALL? The source .tar.gz name? The pathname to the source directory?
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > > On Sep 17, 2009, at 12:43 , Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >> Thanks. Perhaps someone in the core group can >> still provide explicit information on how to install such >> a package. >> > > R CMD INSTALL > > (see R --help and it has been *the* way to install packages for quite a > while so I'm not sure how more explicit we have to make it...) > > Cheers, > Simon > > > >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 17 September 2009 at 11:32, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >>> | Regarding this from this week: >>> | >>> | 2.10.0 PACKAGE INSTALLATION (Windows) >>> | It is possible to install source packages without Rtools provided they >>> | have no compiled code and no configure.win or cleanup.win script. >>> | >>> | - what are the instructions to perform such a source install? >>> | - I assume one still needs MiKTeX -- is that right? >>> | - is the source install done from a tar.gz (in which case one would >>> | need tar to create it) or directly from the source directory tree? >>> >>> You may want to stick this >>> >>> http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel >>> >>> into your RSS reader so that you get daily summaries of changes. >>> >>> I don't follow this too religiously (as I typically only built r-devel >>> once we have >>> alpha/beta/rc candidates) but even I am aware that >>> >>> a) dynamic .Rd conversion at runtime, so Miktex may no longer be >>> needed >>> >>> b) untgz.exe on Windows to read (compressed) tarballs >>> >>> Dirk >>> >>> -- >>> Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
