Re: [igraph] igraph, R 2.12 and CRAN

[Gábor Csárdi]

Thanks Jeremy, this was very useful.

For the records, the Windows version on CRAN is fine now. If it still
does not work for you, please try the mirror in Austria as well, other
mirrors might not have the new version yet.

Best,
Gabor

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:40 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> I finally got around to updating to R 2.12.0 and found that igraph is not
> presently available for Windows on CRAN due to build errors (16 December
> 2010).  Notwithstanding the README attached to the failed build, there is
> apparently no pre-built igraph package available for R 2.12.0 on Windows.
>
>
>
> The errors are apparently related to the new Windows multi-architecture
> packaging (64-bit Windows and 32-bit Windows are now packaged together,
> whereas previously separate packages were constructed for 32-bit and
> 64-bit).
>
>
>
> The following steps (which I’m posting in case anyone else has this trouble)
> appear to work around the problem successfully for 32-bit Windows systems:
>
>
>
> 1.       Get igraph_0.5.5.zip from CRAN for R 2.11.1
> (/bin/windows/contrib/2.11)
>
> 2.       Install from the local zip file into R 2.12.0 (or just give up and
> use R 2.11.1 J)
>
> 3.       Once installed, find the “libs” folder within the igraph package
> (by default: $R_HOME/library/igraph/libs)
>
> 4.       Create a subfolder of “libs” called “i386” (yielding
> $R_HOME/library/igraph/libs/i386)
>
> 5.       Move (or copy) all the .dlls from “libs” down into “i386”
>
>
>
> At that point, you will be able to load igraph into R 2.12.0 and it does
> seem to work just fine (at least with the limited testing I’ve done with my
> projects that use igraph).
>
>
>
> I hope that will save someone else the half-hour of head scratching I did!
>
>
>
> Jeremy Raw, P.E., AICP
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