[Rd] Runnable R packages

[Peter Meissner]

Doesn't Rtools provide everything needed to build R packages and R on
Windows - including gcc?

Am Sa., 2. Feb. 2019 um 22:29 Uhr schrieb Abs Spurdle <spurdle.a using gmail.com>:

> Creating an .exe file isn't necessarily difficult.
> The main problems are that you have to write and compile the C (or other)
> files.
> Otherwise, the complexity depends on the level of Inter Process
> Communication that's required.
>
> Simply starting R with some initial conditions, is easy.
> Even if you want to prompt the user to install missing packages, it isn't
> necessarily difficult.
>
> It would be possible to take this one step further, and write an .exe
> builder, that automates the process of creating .exe files.
> Obviously, it would require a compiler and supporting libraries.
> I have a preference for GCC, and I'm not sure if you can run GCC on Windows
> without Cygwin.
>
> I may (or may not) look into this further, in a few weeks time.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 2:27 AM Barry Rowlingson <
> b.rowlingson using lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > I don't think anyone denies that you *could* make an EXE to do all
> > that. The discussion is on *how easy* it should be to create a single
> > file that contains an initial "main" function plus a set of bundled
> > code (potentially as a package) and which when run will install its
> > package code (which is contained in itself, its not in a repo),
> > install dependencies, and run the main() function.
> >
> > Now, I could build a self-executable shar file that bundled a package
> > together with a script to do all the above. But if there was a "RUN"
> > command in R, and a convention that a function called "foo::main"
> > would be run by `R CMD RUN foo_1.1.1.tar.gz` then it would be so much
> > easier to develop and test.
> >
> > If people think this adds value, then if they want to offer that value
> > to me as $ or £, I'd consider writing it if their total value was more
> > than my cost....
> >
> > Barry
> >
>
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