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

[Simon Urbanek]

On May 12, 2007, at 8:24 AM, Klaus Thul wrote:

> 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.
>

... but it won't contain CHM help which is now the default on Windows  
(unfortunately IMHO, but that's another topic ...).

Cheers,
Simon


>
>
>> 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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