[R] problem installing packages from source on win2k

Duncan Murdoch dmurdoch at pair.com
Sat Jun 14 04:22:25 CEST 2003


On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:02:07 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>
>Dear R-helpers,
>
>I'm having trouble compiling R packages from source on Win2K. 
 ...
>  Rcmd install fields_1.3-1.tar.gz
>which dies with the error
>.
>hhc: not found

That's the Microsoft help compiler.  You can probably do a build
without it; you'll need to define WINHELP to NO instead of the default
CHM.  

Duncan Murdoch




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