Re: [ESS] [R-win] Difficulty installing R packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin

2023-12-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help
On 2 December 2023 at 22:06, Tomas Kalibera via ESS-help wrote: | R is not being tested under WSL. (From several arm lengths away:) WSL2 appears to be very solid. I had an early alpha tester of my (then brand-new) r2u [1] using and stressing it, it appears to work a like regular Ubuntu system

Re: [ESS] [R-win] Difficulty installing R packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin

2023-12-02 Thread Tomas Kalibera via ESS-help
On 12/2/23 18:59, Sparapani, Rodney wrote: Hi Robert: Would they allow dual-booting?  I’m not saying that you can’t get ESS to work under Cygwin.  On the contrary, it did work at one time so it certainly can be done.  However, that is not currently supported so you are on your own.  But,

Re: [ESS] [R-win] Difficulty installing R packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin

2023-12-02 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Robert: Would they allow dual-booting? I’m not saying that you can’t get ESS to work under Cygwin. On the contrary, it did work at one time so it certainly can be done. However, that is not currently supported so you are on your own. But, perhaps there are others in the same

Re: [ESS] [R-win] Difficulty installing R packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin

2023-12-02 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Robert: There was a time when we supported ESS under Cygwin. In other words, run elisp code assuming UNIX/Linux rather than Windows even though Windows is the OS. However, that was a long time ago: at least 10 years since I last tried it. Cygwin has largely fallen out of fashion since you can