You need to install the tools needed to build packages from source. You can read about it in Q3.1 of R for Windows FAQ.
Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: Rex Bryan Dell1700 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [R] R] Re: Mandelbrot set and C code -- > > > Wizards... > > With regards to Mario's Mandelbrot.c programming -- would > some kind wizard show how to compile and run his code on > a Win installation. I'm looking for a simple "cookbook" > example in the same manner that Mario show for Linux. I have > Win2000 on this machine. > > REX > --------------- Original Message --------------------- > > Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:09:36 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [R] Re: Mandelbrot set and C code > To: Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > -- Snip -- > To anyone interested in trying out these functions, just save > the C code into a file, say 'mandelbrot.c', to be able to use > the C code with R a shared object needs to be created. This > is done simple running the following command from the > directory where 'mandelbrot.c' is stored (note this code was > tried in Linux, for Win users I think the instructions are > similar but you need you check it out): > > R CMD SHLIB mandelbrot.c > > This will create the file 'mandelbrot.so' in that same directory. > > Start R from this directory and paste the above R code into > the console. Type > > > dyn.load("mandelbrot.so") > > --snip-- > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo> /r-help > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
