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. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
