[R] installing the package Rcplex

[Uwe Ligges]

On 21.02.2012 19:57, zheng wei wrote:
> Thank you both for helping. Still could not figure out.
>
> I was contacting different supporting IT departments in my university but did not get any help.
>
> For the moment, I just want to what does the instruction of the package means. You could find this instruction on page http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcplex/INSTALL
>   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ***WINDOWS***
> Installation on Windows systems is done by using the provided
> Makevars.win file in the src directory. It contains the following
> lines:
> PKG_CPPFLAGS=-I<CPLEX_DIR>/include
> PKG_LIBS=-L<CPLEX_DIR>/lib/x86_windows_vs2008/stat_mda -lcplex111 -lm
> where<cplex_dir>  is the cplex installation directory
> e.g. /c/ilog/cplex111. Please edit your Makevars.win file accordingly.
> We have successfully tested this procedure with CPLEX 11.1 on 32-bit
> Windows XP.
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>
>
> I can find the file and see the codes. But what new path should I put, and what to do next?

The path to your CPLEX installation?

Uwe Ligges




>
> Thanks,
> Wei
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
> To: David Winsemius<dwinsemius at comcast.net>
> Cc: zheng wei<zhengwei0204 at yahoo.com>; "r-help at r-project.org"<r-help at r-project.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 6:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [R] installing the package Rcplex
>
>
>
> On 20.02.2012 01:54, David Winsemius wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 19, 2012, at 7:45 PM, zheng wei wrote:
>>
>>> I did not know this before. I installed it as you suggested. what to
>>> do next?
>>
>> Read the Installation Manual?
>>
>
> And don't forget this is a source package for which no CRAN Windows
> binary exists, hence it may be not that straightforward to get it done
> and you wil have to read the INSTALL file from the source package carefully.
>
> Uwe Ligges