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

[Josh O'Brien]

Many thanks for your help. 

I mistakenly deleted my original message (not even knowing that was
possible). Apologies for that.

For future reference, when a section of an R manual (like the bit from the
'Installing R Under Windows Section' of the R-admin manual) no longer
applies to the current version of R, what's the recommended course of
action? Is it valuable to report it, and if so where?

Thanks again,

Josh O'Brien


Uwe Ligges-3 wrote
> 
> On 10.04.2012 20:24, Josh O'Brien wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Yes, the options changed. See the Windows specific CHANGES.
> 
> 
> 
>> (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'.
> 
> Yes, the installer does not contain sources (also the one you can get 
> from CRAN does not contain them).
> If you want to distributed such files as well, you have to change the 
> code that is used for building the Inno installer related files.
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
>>
>> 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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