Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:32:33 +0100, Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Seth (and Duncan)-- the murdoch-sutherland page seems to fix everything. The slimmed-down INSTALL file in R-devel src gnuwin32 doesn't refer to the page-- it might be good to add a reference.
Mark,
I disagree.
This "slimmed-down" file points you to the thorough Chapter "Installing R under Windows" in the "`R Installation and Administration' manual in the doc/manual directory". Quite at the top of Section "Building from source" there is the Subsection "Getting the tools".
I think we do NOT want to point people to Duncan's page at first, or they would not read the more comprehensive manual any more.
This is a problem that is hopefully temporary. Once 2.1.0 is out, it will be reasonable to expect most Windows users to have installed the binary version and have the manual available, the manual will be available online, etc. However, right now a source download only gets the Texinfo source for the manual.
The R-devel manual is online availabe at http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/ so even this is not a big problem.
Uwe
But as you say, the manual is the authority on how to do installs. The web page will only have better information if the manual is out of date, and that shouldn't happen before the release.
Duncan Murdoch
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