installCygwinWindowsDoInstall {ctrdata}

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Install necessary helper apps (Windows only)

Description

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 when used for register "EUCTR", "CTGOV" or "ISRCT", but not for any other register or 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 in c:\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

## Not run: 


try(installCygwinWindowsDoInstall(), silent = TRUE)


## End(Not run)

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