Windows installation

[grf-labs]

Windows installation

[susanathey]

Thanks SO much for the suggestion--this sounds like an easy fix and we'll try to implement it asap. Let us know if you have other comments or suggestions--we're actively working on the package.

[jtibshirani]

Thanks so much @bquistorff for the ticket! It's good to know it's very minor additional work to support Windows. Would it be possible for you to list your version of R, RTools, and the C++ compiler, so we can make sure to test the installation on our end?

I'm hesitant to simply reverse the symlinks, since we'd eventually like to add other bindings (python, etc.) and it'd be best if the core directory was the C++ source of truth. For now I've uploaded a version of the package to releases/gradient-forest-alpha.tar.gz without symlinks. This non-symlink version is also available as a branch, test/windows-support.

[bquistorff]

I was using Microsoft R Open 3.3.2 and RTools 3.4 (which has the C++ compiler I believe). I was also able to install from the tar.gz you posted. Great! On Windows, installation can then be done in one line with:

install.packages("https://raw.github.com/swager/gradient-forest/master/releases/gradient-forest-alpha.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type="source")

[jtibshirani]

I ended up removing the symlinks, and instead updated build_package.R to copy in the relevant source files before building the package. Running devtools::install_githubwill no longer work, but I've updated the README to suggest using the command above (thanks!)