[R-SIG-Mac] Building packages 4 Windows with macbook pro

[Klaus Thul]

Hello, Jean,

I found the following page quite useful (following the instructions  
for building packages on LINUX for WINDOWS):
http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maman/computerstuff/Rhelp/Rpackages.html

If there is no compiled code (C, FORTRAN) in your package you can do  
the following:

	R CMD BUILD ~/foo
	mkdir temp
	R CMD INSTALL -l temp foo
	cd temp
	zip -r ../foo-1.0.zip foo

The resulting file foo-1.0.zip can be installed as binary package on  
Windows.

Best regards,
Klaus


> At 15:42 -0400 9/05/07, Sebastien Durand wrote:
>> Hello to all,
>>
>> I am a package developper and I would like to
>> know what is the best way to build package
>> binaries for both Windows and Mac installation of
>> R, using a macbook pro?
>>
>> The command I am presently using to create and build my packages  
>> binaries is :
>>
>> "R CMD BUILD ~/foo"  -> This produce foo.tar.gz
>> which cannot be used in a windows installation of R.
>
> I use the "R CMD build --binary" command under Windows in Parallels
> Desktop for Mac. It works quite well on my macbook with 2Gb RAM.  
> See http://www.parallels.com/
>
> You might want to check VirtualBox too : http://www.virtualbox.org/
> which is now free (GNU licence).
>
> Of course, you must have the complete R development tools setup under
> the guest Windows OS, which is even trickier than on MacOS (as opposed
> to Linux).
>
> I also have a Linux Debian installed in Parallels Desktop and R CMD
> build --binary works well too.
>
> Jean
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