On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:49:04 -0500, Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
>I haven't checked on the installation tools under Windows but I think >that most, if not all, of the creation and installation of a binary >package (i.e. building indices, etc.) could be done in R for packages >that do not require compilation of source code and provided that you are >willing to go without some forms of the man pages. Yes, I think that's right. Currently the roadblocks are: - Perl I think we could write around this. - Microsoft Help Compiler Users who don't have it could do without CHM help files. - Lots of Cygwin (and other) tools involved in making packages. We could possibly rewrite the build process in R, but I don't think we should. I think a better solution would be to distribute the toolset with R. The full toolset doesn't add up to much (maybe 1.5 M). A problem is that multiple Cygwin versions don't coexist nicely, so we'd have to be careful during installation. - MinGW gcc Users who want to compile code would still have to install the compiler. Duncan ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
