[R] problem installing packages from source on win2k

[Rafael A. Irizarry]

simon, 

in case you havent done so already,
i carefully followed the instructions here:

http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/R/rw-FAQ.html

and everything worked fine.

hth,
-rafael


On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Simon Cawley wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> On 13 Jun 2003, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> 
> > Date: 13 Jun 2003 20:03:32 -0500
> > From: Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com>
> > To: Simon Cawley <simon_cawley at affymetrix.com>
> > Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Subject: Re: [R] problem installing packages from source on win2k
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 19:02, Simon Cawley wrote:
> > > Dear R-helpers,
> > > 
> > > I'm having trouble compiling R packages from source on Win2K.  I
> > > installed R 1.7.1beta [1] on my win2k machine [2], downloaded the
> > > fields package as source [3] and tried but failed to install the
> > > package [4].  I get the same problem with other packages, so it
> > > doesn't appear to be limited to fields.  Installation of precompiled
> > > packages seems to work fine.  I've been doing this on linux for a long
> > > time and never ran into such an issue.
> > > 
> > > I've trawled the FAQ and the archives but I'm not finding anything. 
> > > Any clues where I'm going wrong?
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > 
> > > -Simon
> > > 
> > > ##############
> > 
> > ...Lengthy notes SNIPPED
> > 
> > Simon, 
> > 
> > Unless I am missing something here, I think that you are making this
> > more difficult than you need to.
> > 
> > Thanks I believe to Uwe Ligges, there appears to be a version of the
> > fields package already compiled for R 1.7.x on Windows at:
> > 
> > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.7/fields_1.3-1.zip
> > 
> > Is there a reason that you cannot use this?
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> > Marc Schwartz
> 
> Thanks Marc, but I was just using compilation of the fields package as an example.
> 
> What I'm really trying to resolve here is how to compile my own packages on win2k, compilation of existing well-tested packages is just a step along the way.
> 
> -S
> 
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