Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-24 Thread Latchezar (Lucho) Dimitrov
> -Original Message- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 2:00 AM > To: Duncan Murdoch > Cc: Latchezar (Lucho) Dimitrov; r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin > > On Thu, 23 Aug 20

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > The issue is compatibility with other Windows programs. /path/to/file works > in lots of Windows programs, and is interpreted relative to the current > drive. In the common situation where the user only has one partition which > is mounted as C:, i

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-23 Thread Latchezar (Lucho) Dimitrov
> -Original Message- > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:15 PM > To: Latchezar (Lucho) Dimitrov > Cc: Prof Brian Ripley; Denham Robert; r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin > &g

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Cc: r-devel@r-project.org; Duncan Murdoch >> Subject: Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin >> >> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Denham Robert wrote: >> >>>>> For various reasons, >>>> I think it is only courteous to mention some good reasons >> if you w

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-23 Thread Latchezar (Lucho) Dimitrov
--Original Message- > From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 5:02 PM > To: Latchezar (Lucho) Dimitrov > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin > > Many people, probably about half, of R users are Window

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
> Finally I just wanted to have my vote put there (apparently not where > your vote is) not to argue. > > > -Original Message- > > From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 4:01 PM > > To: Latchezar (Lucho) Dimitrov

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-23 Thread Latchezar (Lucho) Dimitrov
01 PM > To: Latchezar (Lucho) Dimitrov > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin > > Having it be the same under cygwin as it is for other UNIX > systems would be ok but for the native Windows port R should > behave like other Windows applicatio

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
sage- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley > > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 2:54 AM > > To: Denham Robert > > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org; Duncan Murdoch > > Subject: Re: [Rd] compiling R under c

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-23 Thread Latchezar (Lucho) Dimitrov
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 2:54 AM > To: Denham Robert > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org; Duncan Murdoch > Subject: Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin >

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
gt; -Original Message- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 21 August 2007 9:53 PM > To: Duncan Murdoch > Cc: Denham Robert; r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin > > Yes, > >> What is the advantage of bui

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-22 Thread Denham Robert
rw.qld.gov.au Department of Natural Resources & Water QScape Building, 80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly Qld 4068 -Original Message- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 21 August 2007 9:53 PM To: Duncan Murdoch Cc: Denham Robert; r-devel@r-project.org Subject:

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > Besides Cygwin and VMware there is also the coLinux kernel which is > a native Linux kernel that runs on Windows. I have run R with the AndLinux > distro based on Ubuntu/coLinux/Xming on top of Windows with some success. > It has the advantage that it runs much faster

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Yes, > >> What is the advantage of building this? > > was my question too. If you want a Unix-like version of R on PC hardware > running Windows why not run a Unix-like OS under a virtual machine? > > Quite a lot of the details are wrong: using FLIB

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/21/2007 10:57 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> Yes, >> >>> What is the advantage of building this? >> >> was my question too. If you want a Unix-like version of R on PC hardware >> running Windows why not run a Unix-like OS under a virtual machine? >> >> Qui

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 8/21/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > Yes, > > > >> What is the advantage of building this? > > > > was my question too. If you want a Unix-like version of R on PC hardware > > running Windows why not run a Unix-like OS under a virtual machine

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Yes, > >> What is the advantage of building this? > > was my question too. If you want a Unix-like version of R on PC hardware > running Windows why not run a Unix-like OS under a virtual machine? > > Quite a lot of the details are wrong: using FLIBS, BLAS_LIBS and L

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Yes, > What is the advantage of building this? was my question too. If you want a Unix-like version of R on PC hardware running Windows why not run a Unix-like OS under a virtual machine? Quite a lot of the details are wrong: using FLIBS, BLAS_LIBS and LIBS as intended will solve most of the

Re: [Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Denham Robert wrote: > For various reasons, it suits our workplace to have a cygwin version of > R. I am pretty sure that cygwin is still not a supported environment > for R, but we have managed to compile R-2.5.1 under cygwin without too > many dramas. Our procedure is described below. We still

[Rd] compiling R under cygwin

2007-08-20 Thread Denham Robert
For various reasons, it suits our workplace to have a cygwin version of R. I am pretty sure that cygwin is still not a supported environment for R, but we have managed to compile R-2.5.1 under cygwin without too many dramas. Our procedure is described below. We still have a few problems compilin