If you don't mind multi-gig docker containers, this can be helpful: https://github.com/scottyhardy/docker-wine
It doesn't work with 64 bit versions of R as far as I could tell, but 32 bit did install and start correctly in a few clicks when I tried last year. On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:56 AM J C Nash <profjcn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you sure you want to try to run R etc. under Wine? > > - If you have Windows running, either directly or in a VM, you can run R > there. > - If you have Windows and want to run R under some other OS, then set up a > VM > e.g., Linux Mint, for that. I sometimes test R for Windows in a VirtualBox > VM > for Win10, but generally run in Linux Mint. I've also run R in some Linux > VMs > to test for specific dependencies in some distros. > > I rather doubt R will run very well in Linux under Wine. My experience > with Wine > is that a few apps (e.g. Irfanview) run well, but many give lots of > trouble. > > JN > > > On 2020-07-15 1:17 p.m., Steve Bronder wrote: > > Does anyone know of a setup guide for getting R and Rtools 4.0 up and > > running on Wine with the Windows Server 2008 R2 VM? Do other maintainers > > with more knowhow think that would be useful for debugging purposes? > > > > I've been trying to test out some flto gcc things for windows by setting > up > > a local wine VM on my ubuntu box. Wine has an option for Windows Server > > 2008 R2 (which I believe is the windows session CRAN uses?) If anyone has > > done this before and knows of a guide somewhere that would be very > helpful! > > > > Regards, > > > > Steve Bronder > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
