[Rd] how to install header files in package

[Bill Dunlap]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

>
> On 13 June 2008 at 14:28, Kjell Konis wrote:
> | Is there a way to get R CMD INSTALL (and friends) to copy the header
> | files from a source package's src directory to the include directory?
>
> Only if you (ab-)use the 'make all' target in src/Makefile to copy them, as a
> recent thread on r-devel showed.  Some of us suggested that a 'make install'
> target would be a nice thing to have.

Which 'include' directory do you mean?  $RHOME/include or
<pkg>/include?

You could put a copy of the *.h files into inst/include
to get them into <pkg>/include.

Putting them into $RHOME/include isn't always desirable
or possible (permission problems).  If you install
*.h files then you are probably also distributing
*.so, *.dll, and *.lib (on Windows) files and they
should go into a parallel directory.  Where should
they go?

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