Hi R users, Thanks in advance. Is it possible to install R on cygwin? If yes, can anyone assist me how can I install R on cygwin? Currently, I am using R on Windows XP. I have found that binary version of some packages such as RCurl is not available. Once again, thank you very much for the time you have given. Regards, Deb [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Deb Midya wrote:> Hi R users, ? Thanks?in advance. ? Is it possible to install R on > cygwin? If yes, can anyone assist me how can I install R on cygwin?That *is* described in the 'R Installation and Administration' manual.> ? Currently, I am using R on Windows XP. I have found that binary > version of some packages such as RCurl is not available.?Someone has been to a lot of trouble to make RCurl available to you, on the CRAN(extras) repository you will see as a default repository on the Rgui menus.> ? > Once again, thank you very much for the time you have given. > ? > Regards, > ? > Deb > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]Please do follow the posting guide and not send mal-formed HTML. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
I'm not sure I did anything special to install R for use with cygwin. Availability of RCurl appears to relate to windohs AFAICT from the CRAN page. I have never bothered to use this since I already use the related linux tools available through cygwin. Building from source may have become an issue lately but I started to use install.packages in an R script invoked from a bash script running on cygwin and this has worked without incident. R doesn't know about cygwin so you may need to use things like cygpath if you are feeding file names to R etc but this will be an issue with most apps on 'dohs. ---------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:37:40 -0800 From: debmidya at yahoo.com To: r-help at r-project.org Subject: [R] Installing R on cygwin Hi R users, Thanks in advance. Is it possible to install R on cygwin? If yes, can anyone assist me how can I install R on cygwin? f some packages such as RCurl is not available. Once again, thank you very much for the time you have given. Regards, Deb [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.