I know I am going to catch alot of comments for this question but I am really 
stuck. If there is some written documentation that I have missed please 
redirect me.

I want to build 'R' from source on a Windows Platform. The main reasons are 
that I want to check out a debugging some existing packages so I need to build 
with debug symbols and I want to check out a 64-bit version of 'R'. So I read 
the instuructions and downloaded and installed 'rtools' and extracted the 
source. Then I ran into this statement in R-admin.pdf:

>Open a command window at ‘R_HOME/src/gnuwin32’. Edit ‘MkRules’ to set the 
>>appropriate paths as needed and to set the type(s) of help that you want 
>built. >Beware: ‘MkRules’ contains tabs and some editors (e.g., WinEdt) 
>silently remove >them. Then run make all recommended and sit back and wait 
>while the basic >compile takes place.

But when I go to this directory I don't see MkRules. In fact I don't see any 
files, just folders (bitmap and unicode). Are the instructions wrong ? Have I 
missed a step? Or is there somewhere I can retrieve the missing file (MkRules)?

Thank you. 

Kevin

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