[R-SIG-Mac] help with building a binary package?

[Simon Urbanek]

Ben,

On Oct 31, 2005, at 2:33 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:

>     I have a package with some C code that I'd like to build a  
> binary of (for a user who is far away and I don't want to put  
> through the trauma of getting all the compilation tools etc. etc.  
> etc. set up).    Can anyone help out if I send them a  
> source .tar.gz file?

Source packages are easy to install provided the user has Apple Xcode  
developer tools. Those are shipped with the OS hence easy to install.  
Alternatively you can put the package on CRAN and then we will build  
an OS X binary automatically for you.

Cheers,
Simon