[R] Building customized R for Windows installer using 'make myR'

[Josh O'Brien]

I am attempting to build a customized R installer on Windows, using the Inno
Setup installer.

I am following the instructions in Section 3.1.8 of the R Installation and
Administration Manual ("Building the Inno Setup installer"), which includes
the following passage:

      An alternative way to customize the installer starting with a binary
distribution is to first
      make a full installation of R from the standard installer (that is,
select ‘Full Installation’
      from the ‘Select Components’ screen), then add packages and make other
customizations to
      that installation. Then (after having customized file ‘MkRules’,
possibly via ‘MkRules.local’,
      and having made R in the source tree) in ‘src/gnuwin32/installer’ run
:

          make myR IMAGEDIR=rootdir

Unfortunately, I have run into two difficulties, the first minor, but the
second more of a stumbling block:

(1) The standard installer for R-2.15.0 does not offer a 'Full Installation'
option on the 'Select Components' screen. 

(2) The standard installer for R-2.14.2 does offer such a 'Full
Installation' option. However, despite having selected it, the newly
installed R directory does not contain a R_HOME/src/gnuwin32/installer
directory (let alone files 'MkRules' or 'MkRules.local'). R_HOME/src/ does
exist, but it contains only a directory named 'library'.

Am I missing something important here, and if so what is it?

As one alternative approach, could I employ the strategy described in the
quoted passage above with a version of R that I've compiled myself and then
edited slightly (by adding packages and making a few changes to
Rprofile.site)?

Thanks,

Josh O'Brien


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