[R] a UNIX vs. Windows package question, please

[Erin Hodgess]

Whoops...didn't see that.  Thanks.  I should RTFM.



On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

> On 10/01/15 12:45, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
>> On 09/01/2015 5:32 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote:
>>
>>> Hello again.
>>>
>>> Here is another question that I am puzzled about:  I had the (incorrect)
>>> impression that if I had Rtools on a Windows machine that I could use any
>>> tar.gz package.  However, that is not true.
>>>
>>> In particular, I was looking at the rPython package.  I do indeed have
>>> Python on this machine. But when I did R CMD INSTALL rPython, I got an
>>> error message that said, "this is a Unix package".  Interesting.
>>>
>>> Should I just stay with my Ubuntu laptop and behave?
>>>
>>
>> No, but you should not use packages that misbehave.  The ideal R package
>> will run on all platforms where R runs.  Some require effort from the
>> user to provide prerequisites, but no good R package runs only on one
>> platform.
>>
>
> I just had a look at CRAN and there is an INSTALL file associated with
> rPython.  This file says (at the bottom):
>
>  WINDOWS SYSTEMS
>> ===============
>>
>> On a Windows system, the package can be installed from
>> https://github.com/cjgb/rPython-win.
>> It is the same source code and comes with specific platform instructions.
>>
>
> Maybe you can get some mileage out of that.  Good luck.
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf
>
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> Rolf Turner
> Technical Editor ANZJS
> Department of Statistics
> University of Auckland
> Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
>



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Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematical and Statistics
University of Houston - Downtown
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