I have just put on ftp://sirio.stat.unipd.it/pub/R a new version
of R for Win95/NT.
The main difference concerns dynamic linking (see below).
In addition, the binary distribution contains many of the
available packages (all the ones that I have installed on
my Unix machine).
In the afternoon, I will upload the files on CRAN.
g.m.
This is the README file:
rw0613b.zip is a new binary distribution of R (based on the last
"stable"
version, 0.61.3) for Win95 and WinNT. It is compiled using egcs-minw32.
rw0613s.zip contains the MsWindows sources.
News
(a) Now, a dll can call a routine in the main executable. This
means that call_S, R_alloc,... work. Try, for example,
demo(dyn.load).
All R.exe (non static) functions and all global variables
are exported.
In this way, more packages can be ported and furthermore
the size of the dll cuts down.
(b) I fixed a nasty bug which made impossible to set the
memory size. Now, R -v VVVV -n NNNN works.
(c) There is a new command line switch -home aDir which
sets for the current run the HOME directory.
Workspace and user RProfile file are searched in HOME.
In addition, now tempfile() try to use the environmental variables
TMP, TEMP and HOME (in this order).
(d) The following packages are included in the binary distribution:
acepack ace() and avas() for selecting regression transformations
base The R base package
bootstrap Functions for the Book "An Introduction to the
Bootstrap"
class Functions for classification
ctest Classical Tests
eda Exploratory Data Analysis
gee Generalized Estimating Equation models
integrate numerical integration
leaps Regression subset selection
locfit Local Regression, Likelihood and Density Estimtion.
mva Classical Multivariate Analysis
polymars (polychotomous) regression based on
Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines
polynom A collection of functions to implement a class for
univariate polynomial manipulations
spatial functions for kriging and point pattern analysis
splines Regression Spline Functions and Classes
stepfun Step Functions, including Empirical Distributions
survival4 Survival analysis [needs library(splines)]
Of course, I cannot test all the functions. So, don't flame me
if something doesn't work.
Installation (binary distribution)
Just unzip the archive. You will get a new directory (rw0613).
The executable is bin/R.exe.
Installation (sources)
First of all, you have to download and untar the complete sources.
Then, in the directory R-0.61.3, unzip rw0613s.zip.
To rebuild the system using egcs-mingw32 go to the src/gnuwin32
directory and type > make
This will build the main executable (in R-0.61.3/bin) and
the standard packages: base, eda, mva, stepfun.
Installing other packages
Uncompress the package you want in R-0.61.3/src/library.
Then, from the gnuwin32 directory, > make -f MakePkg -C ../library/xxx PKG=xxx [HAVEG77=NO] [DLLNAME=yyy]
will try to build the package xxx.
The HAVEG77=NO options must be used if:
(a) you don't have or don't want to use g77;
or
(b) the package has a src-c directory but not a src one.
The option DLLNAME=yyy must be used if the package requires a
dll with a name different from xxx.dll. For example, the dll
of integrate is adapt.dll.
If you don't need the two flags, you can use the short
command> make pkg-xxx
Compiler flags must be setted in MakeDll. Look to this file
for some example.
Help files
There are no support for generating the help files.
You have to download the pre-formatted one by any CRAN site or
to build them yourself on a Unix machine.
Tools
To rebuild the system and to install other packages, you need
not only a compiler but also some Gnu tools. The ones that I used,
coming from DJGPP, are in djtools.zip.
You must uncompress this file from C:. It will expand
under usr/bin and usr/home.
To use the tools usr/bin must be in the PATH.
In djtools.zip, a version of bash is included.
I am not sure that you need it but I did all my work
using it. To use bash, the environmental variable HOME
should point to /usr/home. You have to start bash, in a console
or a MsDos windows, with> bash -login
If you install djtools.zip, please use the make in usr/bin not
the one of your compiler.
guido masarotto (22/05/1998)
guido at sirio.stat.unipd.it
http://sirio.stat.unipd.it
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