The version of Perl I have is: This is perl, version 5.005_02 built for MSWin32-x86-object
Copyright 1987-1998, Larry Wall Binary build 506 provided by ActiveState Tool Corp. http://www.ActiveState.com Built 15:40:37 Oct 27 1998 It was installed by my IS department some time ago. I will try installing Perl 5.8 and see if that works. Since "Rcmd build -h" does not print a description of the acceptable values for "--docs=", I thought I would look for something similar. The "--docs=TYPE" option for build and the "--type=TYPE" for Rdconv looked related so I thought I would give it a try. Without knowing what the correct values for "--docs=TYPE" are, how am I suppose to know that "--docs=TYPE" is not the same as "--type=TYPE" for specifing what types of help documents to create? I don't think it is a stretch to see how these two could be confused. >-----Original Message----- >From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:48 AM >To: STABLER Benjamin >Subject: RE: [R] Building an R package under Windows NT > > >On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Professor Ripley, >> >> I just downloaded and installed the most current tools from your site >> (http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/), I have version >5.005_02 of Perl, >> and I still get the same error. Do you think Perl 5.8 would >*fix* this >> problem? > >I have no idea, but I do know that correcting all of *your* >errors would >solve the problem. As that version of Perl was AFAIK never >released for >Windows (and has not been available for several years if it >was), I think >you need to try to follow the instructions *exactly* (which >you have not >done re Perl, which says > > The Windows port of perl5, available via > http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/. > BEWARE: you do need the *Windows* port and not the Cygwin one. > >). > >> I didn't think the docs=html option would work as I got the >html option from >> the Rdconv type=TYPE help since the build help does not list >the options. I >> didn't think to look at the install help. > >Why do you think --type (sic) takes the same values as --docs ? > > >-- >Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ >University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) >1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) >Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help