Many people have been disappointed by the lack of a PL/R Windows binary distribution since PostgreSQL 8.3 came out. Unfortunately the switch from MinGW to MSVC as the Windows build system in Postgres 8.3 effectively rendered Windows an unsupported platform for PL/R. I *finally* have made significant progress in this regard and have a binary plr.dll available for testing with PostgreSQL 8.4.x. Please find it here: http://www.joeconway.com/plr/plr.zip This was compiled with VC 2005, against Postgres 8.4.x and R-2.10.x. and is reported to work against somewhat older versions of R, but will *not* work with earlier PostgreSQL. I'll have to build a binary for 8.3.x specifically. Before I do anything more, however, I was hoping some people might test it. There is presently no installer. Drop plr.dll in your $libdir directory -- typically that will be somewhere similar to: C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\lib The zip also includes plr.sql which must be run to load plr into your database; copy that somewhere similar to: C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\share\contrib Finally there is a doc folder with html and pdf documentation. Please let me know if you test -- successful or not. Thanks, Joe
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