R help - Jun 2007 - compiling from source on Vista

Dear R People:

In the "R Installation and Administration" manual, there is a note
that the process used to compile R from source will NOT work on Windows Vista.

Does anyone know if that situation has changed, please?

Thanks in advance!

Sincerely,
Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Erin Hodgess wrote:
> Dear R People:
>
> In the "R Installation and Administration" manual, there is a
note
> that the process used to compile R from source will NOT work on Windows
Vista.
>
> Does anyone know if that situation has changed, please?
That's not quite what it says:

   Note that there are known problems with using this compiler set (and all
   others available at the time of writing) on Windows Vista 
(@url{http://www.nabble.com/environment-hosed-during-upgrade-tf3305745.html#a9195667}
   and that some updates are needed (see the URL above).

As far as I know no update for 'g77' is available for download (so in
that
sense the situation is unchanged) but I believe that the existing tools 
can be gotten to work by setting suitable paths.

We had expected a new MinGW release by now (June 1 was mentioned), so 
hopefully the official solution to this is imminent.

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