[R] [SPAM] - Re: R package development in windows - BayesianFilter detected spam

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 04/05/2007 4:25 PM, Greg Snow wrote:
> I have used the pp/par combination for Perl before.  It is pretty straight forward to convert an existing perl script into a stand alone windows executable.  
>  
> Both the Activestate licence and the Perl Artistic licence allow for embedding a script and perl interpreter together and distributing the result.
>  
> The current perl script(s) used for the R package build package could easily be converted to a 'stand alone' windows executable and be distributed with Rtools for those who do not want to install Perl themselves.
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> The only drawback is that even a "Hello World" script will result in over a meg sized executable (due to the perl interpreter being included).

I took a quick look at the PAR page on CPAN, and it seems possible to 
build a DLL that incorporates the interpreter, and then each individual 
script .exe could be much smaller.  I'll see if I can get that to work; 
it would be really nice to be able to drop the Perl requirement.  If we 
could do that, I'd include the command line tools plus the compiled 
scripts with the basic R distribution, so you could easily build simple 
packages.  The Rtools.exe installer would then just need to install the 
MinGW compilers for packages containing compiled code, and a few extras 
needed for building R.

I don't really know Perl, so I might be asking for advice if I get stuck.

Duncan Murdoch
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> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch on behalf of Gabor Grothendieck
> Sent: Fri 5/4/2007 11:55 AM
> To: Doran, Harold
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; Duncan Murdoch
> Subject: Re: [R] [SPAM] - Re: R package development in windows - BayesianFilter detected spam
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> Just googling I found this:
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> http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=186402
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> On 5/4/07, Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org> wrote:
>>> The best, of course, would be to get rid of Perl altogether.
>> In Python, it is possible to make standalone executables. Is it possible
>> to also do this in Perl, then one could eliminate a perl install. Or, is
>> it possible to use Python to accomplish what perl is currently doing? I
>> may be getting in over my head here since I really don't know what perl
>> is doing under the hood.
>>
>> Harold
>>
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