[R] installing the package Rcplex

[Uwe Ligges]

On 22.02.2012 03:33, zheng wei wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> I was just reminded by the tech support in my university that cplex is an independent software owned by ILOG, which in turn is now owned by IBM. I suceeded in installing the software cplex under the directory of "C:/Program Files/IBM/ILOG/CPLEX_Studio_Academic124/cplex"
> I guess Rcplex is an R package to utilize the software cplex. I have changed the path "/c/ilog/cplex111" to the above path. My question is how to finally and effectively install the package of Rcplex?

You have been asked alreeady to read the R Installation and 
Administration manual.

Uwe Ligges



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> Thanks,
> Wei
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> ________________________________
> From: Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
> To: zheng wei<zhengwei0204 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: David Winsemius<dwinsemius at comcast.net>; "r-help at r-project.org"<r-help at r-project.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] installing the package Rcplex
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> 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?
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> The path to your CPLEX installation?
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> Uwe Ligges
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>> 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
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>> On 20.02.2012 01:54, David Winsemius wrote:
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>>> On Feb 19, 2012, at 7:45 PM, zheng wei wrote:
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>>>> 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