Paul Hiemstra wrote: > Rasanga Ruwanthi wrote: > >> Dear R List, >> >> I want to download kinship_1.2_S.tar.gz in [.....]
>> From the website of the Mayo Clinic: >> >> """Although we realize that some will not have the expertise or perhaps >> the software to do the compilation, particularly on Windows systems, we >> do not have the time or the necessary equipment to provide binary >> versions.""" >> >> A .zip file in windows xp is a binary version where all the C-code has >> already been compiled, .tar.gz files contain uncompiled code. To build >> packages under windows the following link is a good start: >> >> http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ >> Notice that the .tar.gz file on the Mayo site is for S-PLUS, not R (the _S in the filename is the giveaway), which means that basically nothing works the way we are used to for R packages. The directory names are different, the documentation files are in SGML, not Rd, etc., and getting things in whack for R is not a small undertaking. HOWEVER, someone (Jing hua Zhao <jinghua.zhao at mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk>) already did this for you and put the kinship package on CRAN, from where you can install it using the standard mechanisms. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
