Your confusion would be alleviated if you read the whole thing. E.g. Questions likely to prompt discussion unintelligible to non-programmers should rather go to R-devel than R-help. [...] For example, questions involving C, C++, etc. code should go to R-devel.
It is unfortunate that the errors involved in installing R on some platforms involve understanding C, but it is a reality that goes with such broad platform support and parsing through C compiler errors is not what this list is about. In addition, anything you do with a patched or development version of R bears the risk of incomplete support, discussion of which belongs on R-devel. Patched versions are intended to fix specific bugs, so if you are not immediately inconvenienced by such a bug or are not prepared to help fix or at least troubleshoot problems then you probably should not be installing those versions. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On October 14, 2017 12:07:37 PM GMT+01:00, Stephen Berman <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:49:16 +0100 Jeff Newmiller ><[email protected]> wrote: > >> Off topic. Read the Posting Guide. > >I did do that before posting; the choice seemed to be between R-help >("intended to be comprehensible to people who want to use R to solve >problems but who are not necessarily interested in or knowledgeable >about programming") and R-devel ("for questions and discussion about R >development and programming"). Obviously I need to install R before I >can use it, and in my case I had to build it before I could install it, >and running the tests is recommended, and that's where the issue arose; >I couldn't tell if this was due to a bug in R or something on my end, >i.e., I needed help, so that's why I asked here. If you think R-devel >is the right address, I'll ask there. > >Steve Berman ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
