Convenience function to install a minimal Cygwin environment under MS
Windows, including perl, sed and php.
Alternatively and in case of difficulties, download and run the cygwin
setup yourself as follows: cygwinsetup.exe --no-admin --quiet-mode
--verbose --upgrade-also --root c:/cygwin --site
https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/ --packages
perl,php-jsonc,php-simplexml
.
These binaries are required only for function ctrLoadQueryIntoDb
but not for any other function in this package.
Usage
installCygwinWindowsDoInstall(force = FALSE, proxy = Sys.getenv("https_proxy"))
Arguments
- force
Set to
TRUE
to update a Cygwin environment that was previously installed with the function, or to overwrite any existing installation inc:\cygwin
- proxy
Specify any proxy to be used for downloading via http, e.g. `host_or_ip:port`; defaults to the environment variable `https_proxy`. Set to `""` to not specify or to unset a proxy.
Examples
if (FALSE) {
try(installCygwinWindowsDoInstall(), silent = TRUE)
}