rkevinbur...@charter.net wrote:
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
It should be there. Three possibilities:
- Your editor is not showing it because of extension issues (look for
"All files")
- You are misinterpreting R_HOME as something other than the source
directory. (Could this be a typo? R_HOME is usually the destination dir,
but source is what makes sense here. Or are the instructions assuming
builddir=srcdir=destdir?)
- You unpacked it incorrectly or got the wrong source file. I checked
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.9.1.tar.gz and it does have
the file in the right place.
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