These files are shell and perl scripts used for configuring/building R.
They are not required at run time, and hence not installed.

The files are as follows.

  config.guess
  config.sub
  install-sh
  mdate-sh
  missing
  mkinstalldirs
	standard tools from GNU autoconf.  Taken from the autoconf CVS
	(pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/autoconf, module 
	`autoconf').

  GETCONFIG
	create API `Rconfig.h' from the configure information in
	`config.h'.
  GETMAKEVAL
	get the value of a Make variable from a Makefile [this needs to
	be improved].
  GETVERSION
	create API `Rversion.h' from `VERSION' and `date-stamp'.
  
  Rdnewer.pl
	determine whether any Rd file in an Rd tree is newer than a
	given file.
  
  copy-if-change
	copy a file if changed; otherwise, do nothing.

  help2man.pl
	generate simple manual pages from program output.  Taken from
	the GNU help2man package (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/).
	
  install-info.pl
	create or update entry in Info directory.  Taken from the Debian
	GNU/Linux stable distribution.

  keywords2html.pl
	convert `KEYWORDS.db' to HTML.
	
  ldAIX4
	writes an export file, assembling the exported symbols by
	reading the output of nm.  This file is needed on AIX (4.2 and
	later) to compile shared libs.

  link-recommended
	create links with simplified names to the recommended packages.
  
  linkcheck.pl
	comment out links that are not available.

  ltmain.sh
	provide generalized library-building support services.  Taken
	from the libtool CVS
	(pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/libtool).

  move-if-change
	move a file if changed; otherwise, remove.

  pkg2tex.pl
	create a single `PKGNAME-pkg.tex' file from the package docs in
	LaTeX format.

  rsync-recommended
	obtain sources for the recommended packages using rsync, and then
	create links with simplified names to these.