[R-SIG-Mac] Generating R .pkg file for Mac Distribution

[David Winsemius]

> On May 16, 2018, at 2:40 PM, Nigel Delaney <nigelfdelaney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Mac binaries on R are distributed as .pkg files available from CRAN
> for installation.  Does anyone know if the source script (assuming a
> script is used) that generates this pkg file is available anywhere?
> The pkg seems to contain a few elements like a postflight/postinstall
> script that I could not find in any open source repository and are not
> part of the R binaries.
> 
> We have a few users who are dealing with the fortran compiler issues
> on Mac, and were hoping to just modify the current .pkg to contain a
> few more packages, was hoping to avoid reinventing the wheel on the
> packaging scripts.
> 

Are their clang and gfortran installations up-to-date:

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/


> Thanks for any help,
> Nigel
> 
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