System info:

R ver. 1.3.0  (2001-06-22) on Windows 2000

ESS v. 5.1.18 using emacs ver. 20.7.1


Colleagues,


I want to start documenting my functions and see from the writing R 
extensions manual that "The translation [of Rd files] is carried out by the 
Perl script Rdconv in ‘$R_HOME/bin’ and by the installation scripts for 
packages". This suggests that I need to install Perl on my PC (is that 
right?).  


Again, I see that: "Perl version 5 is needed for converting documentation 
written in Rd format to plain text, html, LaTEX, and to extract the 
examples. In addition, several other tools, in particular check and build 
(see Section 1.3 [Checking and building packages], page 7), require 
Perl."


OK, so I hope this isn't naive, but are there instructions somewhere for 
getting and installing Perl ver. 5 for Windows 2000 (and configuring it to 
work with R?) or do I just search the web?


Help will be appreciated,


Sam


Sam McClatchie, Research scientist (fisheries acoustics))))))))))
NIWA (National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd)
PO Box 14 901, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand
s.mcclatchie@niwa.cri.nz 

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