From 760a0f8a15952ba459e966731ab98b1690393e97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:20:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] README.md: Mention that R should be installed before running our installer This came up in response to the v0.1 release announcement on discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org [1]. I've also added a link to Python (and used it where we mention Python) to match the existing link to R. [1]: http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2014-August/001932.html Reported-by: John Blischak --- README.md | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 335dfd7..339478f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ The script: Building ======== -Building the Windows installer requires a Windows machine with Python, +Building the Windows installer requires a Windows machine with [Python][], [py2exe][] and [Inno Setup][inno]. `py2exe` can be installed using `pip` and Inno Setup can be installed using the self-installing package from [the download page][inno-download]. @@ -31,13 +31,17 @@ Using ===== Just have your students download and double-click the compiled -installer. +installer. If you're using [R][], you'll have to install R before +running this installer (because this installer searches likely paths +to find R's `bin` directory). Otherwise, you can run it whenever you +like (e.g. either before or after installing [Python][]). [msysGit]: http://msysgit.github.io/ [nano]: http://www.nano-editor.org/ [SQLite]: http://www.sqlite.org/ [nosetests]: https://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/usage.html [R]: http://www.r-project.org/ +[Python]: https://www.python.org/ [py2exe]: http://py2exe.org/ [inno]: http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php [inno-download]: http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php -- 2.26.2