[R-pkg-devel] Question about selective platform for my R package

Dason Kurkiewicz dasonk at gmail.com
Fri Jul 7 07:41:27 CEST 2017


What you want is to specify the OS_type in your DESCRIPTION file. This is
documented in writing R extensions
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#The-DESCRIPTION-file

-Dason Kurkiewicz

On Jul 7, 2017 1:30 AM, "Disa Mhembere" <disa at jhu.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I made an R package that is specifically for OSX and Linux, and not
> Windows. I pass all checks locally on these platforms, but when I upload my
> package to CRAN the system tries to compile my code on a Windows box which
> obviously results in an error. What is the traditional method of specifying
> supported OSes and getting around this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Disa
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