I am not sure how helpful this is going to be but Appendix C7 in the
Installation and Administration manual is pretty bleak about your
prospects with Cygwin.
On 18/04/2015 02:17, Paul Domaskis wrote:
With all due respect, Duncan, I can't find the message advising
against using the Cygwin port. I did find a message about the
mishandling of line endings, and I've asked on the cygwin forum
(as advised).
As I mentioned, I'm in an environment where updates are not possible,
and I'm clarifying now that this means installations are even more
impossible, at least not without extensive adminstrative delay.
Basically, this is what I have to work with. If anyone can suggest
good ideas for the challenges as-is, that would be much appreciated.
However, given your posts, I fully understand if the answer is "no".
On the other hand, simply demanding a solution consisting of a course
of action which is impossible at present...well, it's just impossible.
Having said that, I'll just say that I've managed to exort the powers
that be to install a Windows based version of R, but I have to work
with what I currently have for at least a week. I should also mention
that I've submitted an update to the mailing list on a workaround for
the R help problem on cygwin. It might not have propagated to
recipients yet.
I appreciate the further info on the extent of the bugginess of the
cygwin port.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/04/2015 5:02 PM, paul wrote:
The help for the cygwin port of R is buggy and hides random lines
of text.
You've already been told not to use the Cygwin port. It's buggy in
the help pages, and probably in many other respects as well. It
doesn't pass the R self-tests. Don't use it.
Consquently, I've been relying on Google, but it is often not
clear how directly relevant the info is for the specific command
that I'm using. For example, reshape is complicated, and has more
than 1 version.
Is there an online version of the help pages?
I tried looking for html versions of the help pages by ferruting
through the R.home() subtree. Haven't found them so far. There
are package pages in subdirectories <package>/html/00Index.html,
but they just contain links to html files that don't reside in my
R.home() subtree. There are also subdirectories <package>/help,
but they contain pages that I don't recognize (*.rds, *.rdb,
*.rdx).
Getting desparate here, and realizing how the web is not in any way
a substituted for locally available help pages that you can be
confident is right for your installation.
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