[Rinside-commits] r259 - in pkg: . inst inst/examples/standard

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Author: edd
Date: 2012-09-14 02:45:57 +0200 (Fri, 14 Sep 2012)
New Revision: 259

Modified:
   pkg/ChangeLog
   pkg/inst/NEWS.Rd
   pkg/inst/examples/standard/Makefile.win
Log:
more explicit about the need for R_HOME to run the Windows binaries


Modified: pkg/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- pkg/ChangeLog	2012-09-12 01:06:18 UTC (rev 258)
+++ pkg/ChangeLog	2012-09-14 00:45:57 UTC (rev 259)
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-09-13  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd at debian.org>
+
+	* inst/examples/standard/Makefile.win: Added more explicit statement
+	about the need to set R_HOME on Windows to run the binaries, or to
+	install RInside from sources on Windows so that R_HOME is set that way
+
 2012-09-07  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd at debian.org>
 
 	* DESCRIPTION: Release 0.2.8

Modified: pkg/inst/NEWS.Rd
===================================================================
--- pkg/inst/NEWS.Rd	2012-09-12 01:06:18 UTC (rev 258)
+++ pkg/inst/NEWS.Rd	2012-09-14 00:45:57 UTC (rev 259)
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@
 
 \section{Changes in RInside version 0.2.9 (2012-12-31)}{
   \itemize{
-    \item ...
+    \item Added note to examples/standard/Makefile.win that R_HOME may
+    need to be set to run the executables -- so either export your local
+    value, or re-install RInside from source to have it reflected in the
+    library build of libRinside
   }
 }
 \section{Changes in RInside version 0.2.8 (2012-09-07)}{

Modified: pkg/inst/examples/standard/Makefile.win
===================================================================
--- pkg/inst/examples/standard/Makefile.win	2012-09-12 01:06:18 UTC (rev 258)
+++ pkg/inst/examples/standard/Makefile.win	2012-09-14 00:45:57 UTC (rev 259)
@@ -1,7 +1,17 @@
 ## -*- mode: makefile; tab-width: 8; -*-
 ##
 ## Simple Makefile for Windows
+##
+## Note that the libRInside library encodes the value of R_HOME found
+## at compilation. So if you use the CRAN package of RInside, its value
+## may not correspond to where you have R installed.  One quick fix is 
+## export the appropriate value of R_HOME, eg ony my work machine
+##           set R_HOME=C:\opt\R-current
+## The other is to re-install RInside from source on your machine.
+## Either one should allow you to actually run the binaries created
+## with this Makefile
 
+
 ## This version is fairly directly derived from the Unix versions
 ## You may have to set R_HOME manually if this does not work
 ## It requires Rtools in the path -- as does all R package building