Maybe on other platforms but on Windows help does not get linked properly with all variations.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > On Sep 17, 2009, at 16:09 , Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >> Note that that is not currently the recommended way. >> > > Now that would be a surprise to me - to quote R-admin: 6.3.1: "R CMD INSTALL > works in Windows to install source packages if you have the source-code > package files". > > >> Also, what comes after INSTALL? The source .tar.gz name? >> The pathname to the source directory? >> > > > R CMD INSTALL --help > > Usage: R CMD INSTALL [options] pkgs > > Install the add-on packages specified by pkgs. The elements of pkgs can > be relative or absolute paths to directories with the package (bundle) > sources, or to gzipped package 'tar' archives. The library tree > [...] > > Cheers, > S > > >> 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
