On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/09/2010 1:21 PM, Jeffrey Horner wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm setting up a development environment on Windows as the subject >> implies. I've downloaded and installed Rtools211.exe (will upgrade >> later when necessary) and I've also downloaded and installed mingw >> with the help of mingw-get.exe. >> >> I come from a UNIX development background, so I'm at the bash shell >> prompt for just about every step in R extenstion development. Question >> is what is an appropriate environment for Windows development. What >> shell do you use? Do you use cmd.exe with the PATH variable set up by >> Rtools? Do you use the sh.exe that comes with Rtools? I've found the >> bash shell from MinGW to be a pretty close equivalent to bash on UNIX. >> Do you use something else? >> > > I've used the bash shell in Cygwin for quite a few years, but I've been > planning a switch to MSYS sometime. Cygwin seems to have made some bad > decisions lately that make it harder and harder to work with.
This is great news! I don't know how I could survive without bash's vi style editing and command completion... Here's my PATH variable which sets the Rtools paths first, then MinGW: horn...@hornerj-win ~ $ echo $PATH /c/Rtools/bin:/c/Rtools/perl/bin:/c/Rtools/MinGW/bin:/c/localbin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lo cal/bin:/c/Program Files (x86)/R/R-2.11.1/bin:/c/Program Files (x86)/CollabNet/Subversion Client: /c/Windows/system32:/c/Windows:/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1. 0/:/c/Program Files (x86)/MiKTeX 2.8/miktex/bin I'm going to follow the "R Installation ..." manual to compile R on Windows and learn a bit about the build process. From there, I intend to "port" some open source libraries that have support for being compiled with MS VC++ over to MinGW. Aside from my PATH variable, are there other things about my development environment I should be aware of? Jeff ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
