Download and install each of R, Rtools and MiKTeX. Each of these have automated installers so its just a matter of pressing Enter repeatedly.
You don't have to change your path if you place Rcmd.bat from http://batchfiles.googlecode.com anywhere on your path (so it can be found). To see your path try this from the Windows console: path Finally enter into the Windows console: cd the.directory.containing.RGoogleDocs Rcmd build RGoogleDocs Rcmd INSTALL RGoogleDocs_1.0.0.tar.gz except replace RGoogleDocs_1.0.0.tar.gz with the filename created by the build. It should now be installed. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Farrel Buchinsky <fjb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was able to extract RGoogleDocs with 7-zip. That was when I began to > appreciate the gravity of what Prof Ripley was saying. I am on a windows xp > machine and the RGoogleDocs download does not have a windows binary version. > Instead it has only a source package. I started using the R-admin manual to > step through the process and got nowhere in about 45 minutes. Then I tried > using the "automated package building > service<http://win-builder.r-project.org/>you could try." and got > nowhere because I did not know what "R CMD build" is. > Can I find someone to do it for me or can I find someone who will give me a > couple of basic steps at a time? > > I am desperate to say goodbye to individual static Microsoft Access or > Microsoft Excel spreadsheets being the repository for my data. > > Farrel Buchinsky > Sent from: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States. > > >>> >> Yes, you can install source packages on Windows: the R-admin manual gives >> you a detailed guide to the tools that you will need to do so. It even >> tells you about an automated package building service you could try. >> RGoogleDocs depends on RCurl and XML, both of which I provide Windows >> binaries for (and are much trickier to install because of their external >> software requirements). >> >> >> Farrel Buchinsky >>> GrandCentral Tel: (412) 567-7870 >>> >> >> -- >> Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk >> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ >> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) >> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
