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

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

Also, if the aim is just to provide an R package for collaborators or  
such, you can use

http://129.217.207.166/index.htm

Read the disclaimer though, in case your package contains sensitive  
data.

Kasper


On May 12, 2007, at 7:01 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

>
> 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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