On 11/07/13 17:57, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On 11/07/2013 01:22, David Winsemius wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 10, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Lucy Leigh wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I have had a look at the manual but it makes no sense to me. I have
>>> downloaded RTools, and the InnoSetup,
>>> but I don't understand how to use these to install my package? Am I
>>> meant to be writing commands
>>> in R itself, or in these other things I've downloaded?
>>
>> Since you are clearly out of your league with respect to compiling
>> from source, now is the time to ask (again), why are you not
>> installing the binary package?
>>
>> At the R command line just type:
>>
>> install.packages("PReMiuM") # should default to type="win.binary"
>> and use a CRAN mirror
>>
>
> Or as she seems to want to use a later version than on CRAN, to ask
> again why she does not use winbuilder.
>
>
But the winbuilder web page explicitly says:
> Please do not upload packages of other maintainers (particularly not
> without changing the Maintainer field to your own e-mail address, if
> you have permissions to do that), because the maintainer indicated in
> the maintainer field of the DESCRIPTION file get response from us.
> Please do not upload BioConductor packages or CRAN packages. Both
> BioConductor and CRAN do have build systems. If BioConductor or CRAN
> packages are not available for Windows, there is a certainly a reason
> and also this service won't be able to build the package properly.
So it would appear that it is *not* advisable for Ms. Leigh to use
winbuilder.
cheers,
Rolf
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