Re: Windows versus Unix packages in CRAN (Was Re: [R] Rmetrics)

2004-05-20 Thread Janusz Kawczak
And it seems that this vicious circle continues forever. Before posting these kind of messages can you please read the INSTRUCTIONS. fBasics_190.10051.zip is a COMPILED version of the package, not a source as you claim to be! It works with no problems; well, at least under Linux. Janusz.

Re: Windows versus Unix packages in CRAN (Was Re: [R] Rmetrics)

2004-05-20 Thread Andrew Criswell
Hello all: On my linux platform, I ran the commands, mkdir fBasics unzip fBasics.zip -d fBasics rm fBasics/src/*.o R CMD check fBasics That was 3 minutes. Next, I copied the files contained in fBasics.Rcheck/fBasics to the R library. library(fBasics) fBasics:Markets, Basic Statistics, Date

Re: Windows versus Unix packages in CRAN (Was Re: [R] Rmetrics)

2004-05-20 Thread Janusz Kawczak
Here is what I get: R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 1.9.0 (2004-04-12), ISBN 3-900051-00-3 . [Previously saved workspace restored] library(fBasics) --- fLibraries: A SOFTWARE COLLECTION

Re: Windows versus Unix packages in CRAN (Was Re: [R] Rmetrics)

2004-05-19 Thread Andrew Criswell
Yes, I agree with Ajay Shah's comments. The Rmetrics website makes a virtue of open source yet the Rmetrics people do not make available their package for the open source platform, Linux. Ajay Shah wrote: Rmetrics - New Version is available for R 1.9 !! in R-binary and R-source form

RE: Windows versus Unix packages in CRAN (Was Re: [R] Rmetrics)

2004-05-19 Thread Pikounis, Bill
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Criswell Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 9:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Windows versus Unix packages in CRAN (Was Re: [R] Rmetrics) Yes, I agree with Ajay Shah's comments. The Rmetrics website makes a virtue of open source

Re: Windows versus Unix packages in CRAN (Was Re: [R] Rmetrics)

2004-05-19 Thread Jeff Gentry
Yes, I agree with Ajay Shah's comments. The Rmetrics website makes a virtue of open source yet the Rmetrics people do not make available their package for the open source platform, Linux. It wouldn't be difficult to create a source tarball and submit it to them

Re: Windows versus Unix packages in CRAN (Was Re: [R] Rmetrics)

2004-05-19 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mkdir fBasics unzip fBasics.zip -d fBasics rm fBasics/src/*.o R CMD check fBasics and that took me about 3 minutes. Now me, I just did unzip -a fBasics_190.10051.zip R CMD INSTALL fBasics