Am Samstag 30 Oktober 2010, 13:54:23 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier: > Hi, > > > during the last days I worked with RKWard on Windows (XP). I did the > > custom install (not the bundle). Every thing is working basically fine, > > no crashes or such. The only thing I did not get to work so far is > > package management (package update and installation ...). Rgui didn't > > work in the first place too but it seems that the --internet2 flag did > > the trick thus no problems with that any longer. Is there anything to > > consider for RKWard regarding such issues? > > not that I know of, and it works fine on my WindowsXP. This answer in the R > windows FAQ seems to indicate that it's a known, but not really understood > problem in R: > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#The-Internet-downloa > d- functions-fail_002e > I don't know whether there is any sensible way for us to work around this. > Let me know, if you have an idea.
My current work around is to do all my installing and updating of packages via Rgui. As stated before after the fresh R 2.12 installation where I set the -- internet2 flag everything was working in the Rgui but still not in RKWard. That's all I can say to it. Sorry. > > > Moreover I used to work with R.2.11 but switched to R2.12 today which > > resulted in a non starting RKWard. I did a reinstallation of RKWard and > > pointed to the new location of R. I did not check if the is a config file > > which can be changed if need or such. My point is that this might be a > > minor problem for average users. ... > > I can see your point, but once again, I can't think of a solution. There > can be an arbitrary number of independent R installations on one system, > and these do not even need to be in the registry. RKWard needs to know > which one to use. The "config file" for that is rkward.bat itself. > Modifying the location of the R-executable, there, would have done the > trick in your case. Okay, I assumed this. That's a valuable information we can put in the RKWard help to make the information available without digging through the list. I suggest we put it in the trouble shooting section. > > Currently RKWard 0.5.4 compiled with any version of R between 2.9.x and > 2.12.x should work with any of these versions of R at runtime. But > sometimes there are incompatibilities, and for instance RKWard 0.5.4 > compiled with R 2.8.x cannot be used with R 2.9.x or above. Also, quite > often, you need the latest version of RKWard in order to run the latest > version of R. For instance, RKWard 0.5.3 cannot run any user command in > the R Console with R >= 2.12.x. > > So, I think the only safe assumption is that for a new installation of R, > you will have to install the most recent version of RKWard. I don't see a > good way to improve on that situation. Well I think that's okay for the average user. As long such information is available no-one will have trouble to install the tiny RKWard binary. > > One thing that we *can* improve is the case that the old R installation no > longer exists. We'd simply need a check for that in rkward.bat, and then > display a helpful message. Any volunteer for some Windows batchfile > scripting? > > Regards > Thomas Regards Stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ RKWard-devel mailing list RKWard-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkward-devel
