simon, in case you havent done so already, i carefully followed the instructions here:
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/R/rw-FAQ.html and everything worked fine. hth, -rafael On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Simon Cawley wrote: > > > > On 13 Jun 2003, Marc Schwartz wrote: > > > Date: 13 Jun 2003 20:03:32 -0500 > > From: Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Simon Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [R] problem installing packages from source on win2k > > > > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 19:02, Simon Cawley wrote: > > > Dear R-helpers, > > > > > > I'm having trouble compiling R packages from source on Win2K. I > > > installed R 1.7.1beta [1] on my win2k machine [2], downloaded the > > > fields package as source [3] and tried but failed to install the > > > package [4]. I get the same problem with other packages, so it > > > doesn't appear to be limited to fields. Installation of precompiled > > > packages seems to work fine. I've been doing this on linux for a long > > > time and never ran into such an issue. > > > > > > I've trawled the FAQ and the archives but I'm not finding anything. > > > Any clues where I'm going wrong? > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > -Simon > > > > > > ############## > > > > ...Lengthy notes SNIPPED > > > > Simon, > > > > Unless I am missing something here, I think that you are making this > > more difficult than you need to. > > > > Thanks I believe to Uwe Ligges, there appears to be a version of the > > fields package already compiled for R 1.7.x on Windows at: > > > > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.7/fields_1.3-1.zip > > > > Is there a reason that you cannot use this? > > > > HTH, > > > > Marc Schwartz > > Thanks Marc, but I was just using compilation of the fields package as an example. > > What I'm really trying to resolve here is how to compile my own packages on win2k, > compilation of existing well-tested packages is just a step along the way. > > -S > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help