[R-SIG-Win] Size of Rtools33

[Avraham Adler]

If it is built with ICU, that adds considerably to the size of r.dll.

Avi

On Friday, September 25, 2015, Kirill Müller <
kirill.mueller at ivt.baug.ethz.ch> wrote:

> Thanks, Jeroen, for your fast reply. Do you think you could separate gdb +
> its dependencies from Rtools?
>
> The current approach of r-portable is rather crude -- it takes the
> InnoSetup installers for R and Rtools and unpacks them. Perhaps there's a
> better way to do this, I'm open for discussion.
>
>
> -Kirill
>
> On 25.09.2015 12:10, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
>
>> Hi Kirill,
>>
>> This is noted in https://github.com/rwinlib/r-base#readme: It is
>> mostly because we are shipping two separate tool chains instead of one
>> multilib. Another reason is that recent versions of gdb depend on
>> python, which again depends on a lot of other libraries. If you are
>> not interested in gdb, you might be able to remove python related
>> things.
>>
>> Btw this might not be the final Rtools, so maybe wait a bit.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Kirill Müller
>> <kirill.mueller at ivt.baug.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> I have noticed a considerable increase in size for the installation of
>>> Rtools 3.3. Are there any parts of the installation that I can safely
>>> remove
>>> if I'm only interested in building R packages (but not R itself)? This is
>>> for r-portable, a portable version of R for Windows [1]. Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Kirill
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/krlmlr/r-portable
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