[R-SIG-Mac] package building

[stefano iacus]

On 01/giu/05, at 12:34, Federico Calboli wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 12:32 +0200, stefano iacus wrote:
>
>> it isn't, we build binaries and distribute them. I was asking about 
>> the
>> source package. Which is the name of the package?
>
>
> my mistake.. that's where I put stuff build on Debian on intel chips.
>
>>>
>>>> If it is on CRAN as source and it passes MAKE CHECK, then it should
>>>> appear as binary on CRAN under bin/macosx/2.1 if not, you should 
>>>> look
>>>> at 
>>>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/2.1/check/checkSummaryOSX.html
>>>
>>> It does pass R CMD check on my pbook with Tiger, so it should be
>>> fine...
>>
>> did you check the url above?
>
> The package is Biodem and it says it's OK. But it was not on the list 
> of
> things I could download from the London mirror when I'm using R.app on
> Tiger.

Ok, I'll check this...that's apparently a  bug in my scripts (but it 
isn't as the package is there, see below)
>
>> We only distribute binaries  built on panther currently, but we are
>> going to ship a tiger version of R.app+binary packages
>
> Ok, so let's recap (I am a bit lost): once I create a package -on 
> Linux-
> and I want to make OSX binaries available as well, what's the
> procedure?

nothing. we need to have the sources of the package on CRAN, then daily 
building scripts will run make check and provide binaries under 
CRAN/bin/macosx/2.1

BTW, Biodem 0.1 is there. Try the main CRAN site to retrieve the list 
of binary packages from R.app

stefano


>
> Regards,
>
> Federico
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