Hi, Prof. Ripley (and Berwin for his off-list reply), Thanks for the reply. Yes, I know this is not the recommended mode. I guessed as much when I could not find a simple answer in R-admin. The is actually our current mode of installation at the client. But some suggestions from management have veered my in this direction.
Thanks, --sundar Prof Brian Ripley said the following on 4/15/2008 11:48 AM: > Look in share/make/vars.mk. BASE means base, not recommended, believe > it or not. You would need to add to R_PKGS_RECOMMENDED_SOURCES and > R_PKGS_RECOMMENDED. > > On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote: > >> Hi, R-devel, >> >> I'm trying to create a modified distribution of R to include several >> packages are not part of the CRAN version. I.e. When I untar >> R-2.6.2.tar.gz I would like to include my package "foo_1.0-0.tar.gz" in >> 'src/library/Recommended' so that when a user builds my version of R >> they also get my package and don't have to explicitly do >> install.packages. I searched the archives looking at ways to change the >> Makefile in 'src/library' but came up empty. I suspect the change has to >> do with $R_PKGS_BASE though I'm unsure. > > We don't encourage it. We do describe how to do this for the Windows > installer , but on a Unix-alike you can just use a wrapper script to > install R and then run 'R CMD INSTALL foo_1.0-0.tar.gz'. > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
