[R] package compilation

[Uwe Ligges]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Joerg Schaber wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I recently wrote a new R package, which I could 'R CMD check' and 'R CMD 
> build' nicely on my Intel Linux PC. Loading the new library as a normal 
> user on my PC also works nicely.
> This packages includes some compiled C-code in a shared library. 
> However, before submitting the package to CRAN I wanted to install it 
> also under an other platform in order to check if everything works 
>  fine. Obviously, in order to install it under another platform I have 
> to recompile the shared lib. So I added a /src directory in the library 
> containing the C source code and than run a 'R CMD build'. However, 
> running 'R CMD INSTALL'  on the resulting tar.gz archive does not 
> recompile the source code on the new machine. But installing other 
> packages having a /src directory the source code is recompiled.
> So what do I have to do that running a 'R CMD install' on my *tar.gz 
> file recompiles de source code and creates a platform dependend shared lib?

You have to remove any binaries from that directory, but R CMD build
should have done it for you. Or does the compilation fails out of other
reasons? It's hard to guess without any more details.

Uwe Ligges