On 12/2/23 18:59, Sparapani, Rodney wrote:
Hi Robert:
Would they allow dual-booting? I’m not saying that you can’t get ESS
to work under Cygwin. On the contrary, it did work at one time so
it certainly can be done. However, that is not currently supported
so you are on your own. But,
As R core and ESS core I still have never tried to install ESS under Windows.
Just last week installed not only R for Windows (binary from CRAN) +
Rtools43 (by Tomas, from CRAN) and was able to install my Rmpfr
package (C code + external lib) *from source* -- again
thanks to Tomas Kalibera's
my initial reaction is that you are trying to hard. I haven't paid serious
attention to Windows since
I switched to Mac about 10 years ago.
What I recall is that all the unix utilities (sh, awk, grep, etc) that you need
are included in the
Rtools collection. Indeed they are exactly the cygwin
Hi Robert:
Would they allow dual-booting? I’m not saying that you can’t get ESS
to work under Cygwin. On the contrary, it did work at one time so
it certainly can be done. However, that is not currently supported
so you are on your own. But, perhaps there are others in the same
Hi Robert:
There was a time when we supported ESS under Cygwin.
In other words, run elisp code assuming UNIX/Linux rather
than Windows even though Windows is the OS. However,
that was a long time ago: at least 10 years since I last tried it.
Cygwin has largely fallen out of fashion since you can
