Duncan Murdoch writes: > - 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.
There have been attempts to rewrite the UNIX tools in other languages (perl, lua) and given the high level facilities available in R it would be no less feasible to rewrite them in R although I don't know whether it is really a good idea or not. ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
