[R-SIG-Mac] how to compile R for use with binary CRAN packages

[Simon Urbanek]

On Apr 29, 2013, at 5:04 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On 28/04/2013 18:43, Tobias Verbeke wrote:
>> Dear list,
>> 
>> The build page at
>> 
>> http://r.research.att.com/building.html
>> 
>> explicitly mentions
>> 
>> <quote>
>> Note that your binary will require you to install all packages from sources.
>> </quote>
>> 
>> Is there any documentation on how to compile R from source
>> in such a way that one can install binary packages from CRAN?
>> 
>> I have read
>> 
>> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#OS-X
>> 
>> but may have overlooked any specific pointers.
>> 
>> Many thanks in advance for your help.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Tobias
>> 
>> P.S. target R version currently is R 2.15.3 but if R 3.0.0
>> would make this easier, then that is a sufficient reason to
>> move to R 3.0.0.
>> 
> 
> Why do you want to do that?  If you modify the sources binary packages may not longer work ....
> 
> No guarantees, but
> 
> - do this for the version of R you currently have installed.
> 
> - configure R with --with-aqua, --enable-R-framework (which are the default, AFAIR).
> 

The actual flags used to build the current CRAN binary are in

https://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk/QA/Simon/R-build/conf.snowleopard-x86_64

If you want to replicate the CRAN build (requires Mac OS X 10.6), you can set it up with:

mkdir /Builds
cd /Builds
svn co https://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk/QA/Simon/R-build nightly
make

cd /Builds/nightly
## put your favorite R sources here - either using svn or unpacking a tar ball - let's say it's R-3.0.0
./release R-3.0.0

If all went well you'll have everything built, installed, packages and tar balls in
deploy/snowleopard/R-3.0.0

In order to match the R capabilities that we supply on CRAN you'll also need quite a few static libraries like fontconfig, freetype, cairo etc.

Cheers,
Simon



> - install it to the framework.
> 
> Then the version you built should be the one used by 'R' and 'R.app': try it at the command-line.
> 
> The default option("pkgType") will be "source", but you will be able to use options(pkgType="mac.binary") (3.0.0) or "mac.binary.leopard" (2.15.3).  To set the default during compilation, define PLATFORM_PKGTYPE when building src/main/platform.c
> 
> 
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