On 4/16/07, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/16/2007 7:53 AM, Gregor Gorjanc wrote: > > Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >>> I do not have any experience with use of (bash) shell scripts under > >>> Windows. Sweave.sh can be used with Cygwin, but I am not sure how to use > >>> shell script without Cygwin. I noticed that some "scripts" in R*/bin > >>> directory on our Windows machine are perl (build, check, INSTALL, ...) > >>> and shell (Rd2dvi.sh, Stangle.sh, Sweave.sh, ...) scripts. This > >>> therefore means that R ships also perl and shell interpreter or am I > >>> missing something? > >> > >> We don't ship Perl or sh.exe, but we do describe how to get them in the > >> R Admin manual. > > > > Maybe I got this totally wrong. Say someone who uses Windows finds R and > > installs it via setup file. Can he/she launch the folowing without > > having Perl and/or sh.exe? > > > > R CMD script whateverOption > > No. Installing a binary package has a pure R implementation so it > doesn't need R CMD, but most of the capabilities of R CMD are not > available with a basic R install.
Can you just clarify what the dependencies are for Rcmd sweave where Rcmd is the Rcmd command distributed with R that is run from the Windows command line. Does that require perl or other tools to run? ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
