[R-SIG-Mac] Any script to package a built R binary to a Mac OS X installer?

[Simon Urbanek]

On Dec 21, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On 21/12/2011 19:49, Sang Chul Choi wrote:
>> First, I apologize for sending this duplicate message to r-sig-gui.  I thought that was the mailing list I should send questions about Mac GUI.  I found that this r-sig-mac mailing list was the right place to ask the following question.  Thank you.
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>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am wondering how "R.app GUI 1.41 for Mac OS X" is built from the source code, and am messing around about the R project web site.
> 
> Whatever that is: we run several sites.
> 
>> My question is if there are some scripts for packaging built R and R-GUI binaries to a Mac OS X install package (I was able to build R and R-GUI, but I could not find a way to package them for installation). If so, where could I find it?  I'm new to either building R from scratch or packaging a Mac installation.  When I was reading "R for Mac OS X Developer's Page" at http://r.research.att.com/, I thought that there must be some scripts for packaging to create an installation file, such as R-2.14-branch-leopard.pkg in the web site at http://r.research.att.com/.  I could not find any of such script or helpful information.
> 
> The sources for R.app are at https://svn.r-project.org/R-packages/trunk/Mac-GUI/, and more general Mac OS X build scripts are currently (they are in the process of moving) at https://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk/QA/Simon/ .
> 


Thanks, Brian.

Since the tree is a bit messy and has both R and package builds, the directory with the currently used packaging system is in 

https://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk/QA/Simon/R-build/packaging/leopard/

It works off the installed R version on the machine.


However, please note that the CRAN builds perform several modifications to the installation before it is packaged, so *please* change the installer ID in the PM project before you produce any installation packages! Also please make clear that whatever you are distributing is likely not compatible with CRAN R (unless you actually run all the CRAN scripts like "universal").

Thanks,
Simon


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>> SangChul
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