Thanks. Perhaps someone in the core group can still provide explicit information on how to install such a package.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 17 September 2009 at 11:32, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > | Regarding this from this week: > | > | 2.10.0 PACKAGE INSTALLATION (Windows) > | It is possible to install source packages without Rtools provided they > | have no compiled code and no configure.win or cleanup.win script. > | > | - what are the instructions to perform such a source install? > | - I assume one still needs MiKTeX -- is that right? > | - is the source install done from a tar.gz (in which case one would > | need tar to create it) or directly from the source directory tree? > > You may want to stick this > > http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel > > into your RSS reader so that you get daily summaries of changes. > > I don't follow this too religiously (as I typically only built r-devel once > we have > alpha/beta/rc candidates) but even I am aware that > > a) dynamic .Rd conversion at runtime, so Miktex may no longer be needed > > b) untgz.exe on Windows to read (compressed) tarballs > > Dirk > > -- > Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
