On 11-04-06 2:45 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11-04-05 7:51 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 11-04-05 6:22 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:
Hello:
1. How can I tell when the development version of Rtools has
changed?
I don't make announcements of the changes, you just need to check the web
site. There are online tools that can do this for you automatically, but
I
don't know which one to recommend. Google suggests lots of them.
I also asked myself this before and I must admit it took me a while to
interpret the contents of the webpage. There are multiple sections,
e.g. 'Changes since R 2.12.2', 'Changes since R 2.11.1', 'Changes
since R 2.11.0', and so on. Then within each section there are some
dates mentioned. Given my current R version (say R 2.13.0 beta) and
Rtools (Rtools213.exe), it not fully clear to me which section to look
at, e.g. 'Changes since R 2.12.2'?
Well, that depends on when you downloaded it. I use the R version releases
as bookmarks. If you last downloaded Rtools after the release of R 2.12.2,
then you only need to look at the last section.
The problem with collecting changes into those that apply to each Rtools
version is just that the change lists would be longer: Rtools212 will get
changes through several R releases. When there are compiler changes,
RtoolsXYZ generally comes out during the previous R version, because the
compiler may only work with the R-devel version. For instance, Rtools212
was introduced between R 2.11.0 and 2.11.1 and was updated a number of times
up to quite recently. (It is now frozen, so if you download it now and are
working with the R versions it supports you never need to worry about
updates to it.)
I understand, and I suspected this was the reason too.
However, if you want to reformat the page, go ahead, and send me the new
version. It's a hand edited HTML page so I'd be happy to incorporate
changes that make it more readable, as long as it's still easy to edit by
hand.
Gabor asked how to know which version was downloaded. If you have the
installer file you can tell: right click on it, choose Properties, look at
the Version tab. If you didn't keep the installer, I don't know a way to
find out, but it might be recorded in the unins000.dat file that the
uninstaller uses. Of course, without downloading the new one you can't find
out its version: so back to my original suggestion to monitor changes to
the web page. I'll see if there's a way to automatically include the
revision number in the filename.
This is useful - I didn't know about this version number of InnoSetup.
I've browsed the online InnoSetup help, but I couldn't locate what
the version parameter is called. With it, would it be possible to use
a [Code] block having InnoSetup write the version number to a VERSION
file in the Rtools installation directory? That would make it
possible to compare what's online and what's installed.
Another alternative for figuring out if Rtools have changed would be
to compare the timestamp of the installed Rtools directory (because
you typically install immediately after download) and the
Rtools213.exe timestamp on the web server. This could be achieved by
moving the files to, say,
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/download/ and enable indexing
of files in that directory.
Either way, know about the version number is certainly good enough for
me. After installing Rtools, I can simply put the installer file in
the Rtools directory to allow me to compare to it later. (I kind of
did this before by comparing file sizes.)
I've just uploaded a small change: now Rtools.txt records the version
number (and if I remember to update it, you can download only that file
to see if you are up to date). There's also a VERSION.txt file that
contains the version number, which is likely to maintain its format more
consistently, so if you want an automatic check, you should look at that
file. It's also on the web site.
Duncan Murdoch
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