Pre-compiled binary packages for R-2.1.x for Windows
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** This collection is no longer updated. Please upgrade to R>=2.3.0 **
** Last update: 09. November 2005.                                  **
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This collection is unsupported. Please compile from sources
yourself in case of any problems. Please ask the package maintainer
in case of any questions.

Building binary versions of the contributed packages on CRAN has been
automated. Binary packages will be available on CRAN about 1-3 days 
after the sources have been published. Please do *not* submit binary 
versions of any packages, because that needs manual intervention by 
this collection's maintainer (hence it is time consuming).

Some packages have been working in a former version, but do no longer
compile on Windows or do not pass "R CMD check". The last `working' 
versions of these packages are available for manual download in 
subdirectory ./last

Packages that do not compile out of the box or do not pass 
"R CMD check" with "OK" or at least a "WARNING" will *not* be 
published. The results of "R CMD check" are given in 
CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/checkSummaryWin.html 
In case of a "WARNING" or an "ERROR", please check the corresponding
check.log files in subdirectory ./check. 

Possible reasons for not-compiling or not-passing the checks:
 - I do not have some other software the package depends on
 - The package needs manual configuration
 - Any other reason I do not want to discover

Although the packages
  RMySQL, ROracle, and snow
pass make check, it seems to be dangerous to distribute them:
I do not have the software available these packages depend on.
RMySQL is available at http://stat.bell-labs.com/RS-DBI/download,
provided by its maintainer, David A. James.

The packages
  gsl, ncdf, rgdal, RNetCDF, udunits, and xgobi
do not build out of the box. Nevertheless these are available at
  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.1/
kindly provided by Professor Brian D. Ripley.

The packages
  fork, GDD, gtkDevice, nice, rcdd, RGrace, Rmpi, rpart.permutation, 
  rpvm, RScaLAPACK, rsprng, snowFT and taskPR
also require additional libraries / software to build on Windows I do 
not have (and may not even exist in versions for Windows). 


Uwe Ligges
Uwe.Ligges@R-project.org