[R-pkg-devel] Question: Download package JAR from Github URL to /inst/java in an R package

[Neal Fultz]

Hi Marina - several of the AWR packages for using the AWS java sdk are
implemented this way. For example:

https://gitlab.com/daroczig/AWR/blob/master/R/zzz.R#L18

Best,

-Neal


On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 4:45 AM Maria Cristina Heredia Gómez <
mrcrstnherediagmez using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I have been developing an R package for ordinal and monotonic data named
> OCAPIS <https://github.com/CristinaHG/OCAPIS> but algorithms are mainly
> built in Scala. So, I provide a FAT Jar
> <
> https://github.com/CristinaHG/OCAPIS/tree/master/OCAPIS/inst/java/scala-2.12
> >
> with the package in /inst/java folder.
> Providing that FAT JAR is intended to facilitate the installation to the
> user, as he/she will not need to install the Scala Breeze
> <https://github.com/scalanlp/breeze> library used for algebraic and
> numeric
> operations. As a result, the package weights 37M and I doubt if CRAN would
> accept it.
>
> I was wondering if you guys knew any way that I can specify to download the
> .Jar from, for example, the Github repository
> <
> https://github.com/CristinaHG/OCAPIS/tree/master/OCAPIS/inst/java/scala-2.12
> >
> where it is located and place it under /inst/java when installing the
> package. Or something similar.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Cristina HG
>
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