On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to create a binary package for Windows which when > installed will give the user an option of whether to install > one version or another. > > Here is the problem, I have a package 'FAME' that can run > in two different modes on Windows. An old mode that uses > R to connect to a remote linux machine and a new way that > uses a locally installed database. > > I would allow this decision to be made at run time, but > the DLL in the later case depends upon the database's DLL > being on the Windows machine. A runtime solution would > require at least one extra level of dynamic loading. > > So I would like something like this to happen: > the zip file contains fame-local.dll and fame-remote.dll > when the user selects 'install packages from a zip file' > the user should be given the option of which DLL > should be renamed to 'fame.dll'. > > Is this possible??
No. You can use your own installer, though, just as we do for R itself. > If not, then are there an recommendations for a solution? Why not look for the in-FAME DLL in your .onLoad function, and load the appropriate DLL at that time? Or even put up a dialog box to ask the user (if there is: think about non-interactive use) at that point. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
