You need to install the tools needed to build packages from source. You can
read about it in Q3.1 of R for Windows FAQ.
Andy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rex Bryan Dell1700 [mailto:rexbryan1 at comcast.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:15 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] R] Re: Mandelbrot set and C code --
>
>
> Wizards...
>
> With regards to Mario's Mandelbrot.c programming -- would
> some kind wizard show how to compile and run his code on
> a Win installation. I'm looking for a simple "cookbook"
> example in the same manner that Mario show for Linux. I have
> Win2000 on this machine.
>
> REX
> --------------- Original Message ---------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:09:36 +0100
> From: ucgamdo at ucl.ac.uk
> Subject: [R] Re: Mandelbrot set and C code
> To: Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031001140936.007e2100 at
pop-server.ucl.ac.uk>
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> -- Snip --
> To anyone interested in trying out these functions, just save
> the C code into a file, say 'mandelbrot.c', to be able to use
> the C code with R a shared object needs to be created. This
> is done simple running the following command from the
> directory where 'mandelbrot.c' is stored (note this code was
> tried in Linux, for Win users I think the instructions are
> similar but you need you check it out):
>
> R CMD SHLIB mandelbrot.c
>
> This will create the file 'mandelbrot.so' in that same directory.
>
> Start R from this directory and paste the above R code into
> the console. Type
>
> > dyn.load("mandelbrot.so")
>
> --snip--
>
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