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<font color="red"><b>This page is for MS Windows only!!</b></font>
This is not a necessary process for running a R, but is required
when you want to build packages or install from source code on MS Windows.
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<b>For R version after than 2.0</b> <br>
There is a useful package for the following process
including almost everything you need to build a package.
See the page of
<a href = "http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/" target="_blank">Rtools</a> for details.
- <font color="#800000"><b>Modify Batch File</b></font>
Modify the environment variable to the correct path and will be as the following,
```
@ECHO OFF
DOSKEY
SET PROMPT=$g
SET R_HOME=C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-2.7.1
SET RHOME=%R_HOME%
SET TOOLS_HOME=C:\PROGRA~1\RTOOLS\BIN
SET MINGW_HOME=C:\PROGRA~1\RTOOLS\MINGW
SET PERL_HOME=C:\PERL
SET CHM_HOME=C:\PROGRA~1\HTMLHE~1
SET PATH=%TOOLS_HOME%;%MINGW_HOME%\BIN;%PERL_HOME%\BIN;%R_HOME%\BIN;%CHM_HOME%;%PATH%
```
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<b>For R version earlier than 2.0</b> <br>
The following contains the basic requirement to construct the environment
for building a package.
- <font color="#800000"><b>Reference</b></font> <br>
<font color="red">See the page <a href="http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/" target="_blank">Building R for Windows</a>
or <a href="http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/" target="_blank">here</a>
(my mirror <a href="./reference/windows/" target="_blank">here</a>).
</font>
- <font color="#800000"><b>Download</b></font>
The necessary software are as the following,
1. <b>Unix Toolkit:</b>
From <a href="http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/tools.zip">www.stats.ox.ac.uk</a>
with <a href="http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/sources-tools/" target="_blank">source</a>
(my mirror <a href="./source/tools/tools.zip">here</a>).
2. <b>Windows Perl:</b>
<a href="http://www.activestate.com/" target="_blank">Active Perl</a>
with version ActivePerl-5.8.4.810-MSWin32-x86
(my mirror <a href="./source/tools/ActivePerl-5.8.4.810-MSWin32-x86.zip">here</a>).
3. <b>C Compiler:</b>
<a href="http://www.mingw.org/" target="_blank">MinGW32</a>
with version MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe
(my mirror <a href="./source/tools/MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe">here</a>).
4. <b>Batch:</b>
The batch file for Windows "<a href="./source/tools/SET_BUILD.BAT">SET_BUILD.BAT</a>".
For MS Windows 95, you have to have the <a href="ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/msvcrt.exe">msvcrt.exe</a>
(my mirror <a href="./source/tools/msvcrt.exe">here</a>).
- <font color="#800000"><b>Install</b></font>
1. <b>Unix Toolkit:</b> unzip all files to C:\PROGRA~1\TOOLS\
2. <b>Windows Perl:</b> unzip the ActivePerl-5.8.4.810-MSWin32-x86.zip and copy the extracted
Perl subdirectory to C:\PROGRA~1\PERL\
3. <b>C Compiler:</b> click the MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe and install to C:\PROGRA~1\MinGW\
4. <b>Batch:</b> copy to C:\PROGRA~1\R\
For Windows 95, click the msvcrt.exe and move all extracted files to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\
- <font color="#800000"><b>Modify Batch File</b></font>
Modify the environment variable to the correct path and will be as the following,
```
@ECHO OFF
DOSKEY
SET PROMPT=$g
SET R_HOME=C:\PROGRA~1\R\RW1071
SET RHOME=%R_HOME%
SET TOOLS_HOME=C:\PROGRA~1\TOOLS
SET MINGW_HOME=C:\PROGRA~1\MINGW
SET PERL_HOME=C:\PROGRA~1\PERL
SET PATH=%TOOLS_HOME%;%MINGW_HOME%\BIN;%PERL_HOME%\BIN
```
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