<<<Many parts of original thread [SNIP]'d>>> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> >> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Joerg van den Hoff wrote: > >> > >>> our Windows machines lack proper development environments (mainly > >>> missing perl is the problem for pure R-code packages, I believe?) and we > >>> bypass this (for pure R-code packages only, of course) by > >>> > >>> 1.) install the package on the unix machine into the desired R library > >>> 2.) zip the _installed_ package (not the source tree!) found in the R > >>> library directory > >>> 3.) transfer this archive to the Windows machine > >>> 4.) unzip directly into the desired library destination > >>> > >>> this procedure up to now always worked including properly installed > >>> manpages (text + html (and I hope this remains the case in the future...) > > One obvious limitation of this install method is that it won't produce > native Windows help files (.chm). Plans are to make CHM the default > help system as of the 2.4.0 release, so your packages will not work > properly unless you give special instructions on how to change the help > system defaults. Is the decision to change default help files to CHM set in stone? What's the payback for this change? ---------------------------------------------------------- SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html