On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Brian,
Thanks for the follow-up.
On 6 June 2008 at 11:34, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
| Isn't this what Type: Frontend is for? That gives you complete control
| and would seem appropriate for both of your examples.
Interesting. But the R Extensions manual says
1.10.1 Frontend
---------------
This is a rather general mechanism, designed for adding new front-ends
such as the *gnomeGUI* package. If a `configure' file is found in the
top-level directory of the package it is executed, and then if a
`Makefile' is found (often generated by `configure'), `make' is called.
If `R CMD INSTALL --clean' is used `make clean' is called. No other
action is taken.
I am talking about the need for 'other action' such as 'make install', say.
Are you suggesting I shoehorn what I want done into the main 'make' target ?
Yes. I don't see it as 'shoehorn' -- it is the install step.
| On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
|
| >
| > I have been mulling over an idea I had meant to flesh out with a prototype
| > but haven't gotten around to. So here it goes in the abstract without
| > working code:
| >
| >
| > What: Extend 'R CMD INSTALL' to also work on sources that are not strictly
| > CRAN packages
| >
| > Why: 'R CMD INSTALL' is very good and very successful for CRAN packages. It
| > has solved most issues related to configure, make, ... etc by relying
| > on pre-computed and stored values.
| >
| > CRAN is also very good as a mirror network to distribute content that
| > is easy to obtain by useRs.
| >
| > So there are cases where I'd like to use CRAN / R CMD INSTALL to work
| > on non-package code. Two case are
| >
| > i) littler which is easy to 'configure; make; make install' but
| > would want to live in $PREFIX/bin -- and I need to copy it there
| >
| > ii) RCpp which is a library / glue code making live easier for C++
| > code to interface with R; also easy to configure but I'd then
| > libRcpp.{so,a} to be in $PREFIX/bin -- and I need to copy it
| > there
|
| I hope not in 'bin' -- I am not sure if you mean $PREFIX/lib[64] or
| $R_HOME/lib?
Yes, cut&paste error. $PREFIX/lib is of course what I had in mind.
Other cases that may profit from this are
iii) Some other 'content' such as CRANberries or the cran2deb
efforts could use it to synchronise / update SQLite database
files in agreed upon locations.
iv) Web-based R add-ons could possibly use this mechanism to hook
into the web server.
Dirk
| > How: Similar to 'cleanup' we could have a script 'postinstall' in the
| > top-level directory, and if present, R would execute it.
| >
| >
| > As I'm the one with the itch, I'd be happy to work on code towards
| > implementing this -- but before I go overboard with it, I'd love to hear
| > comments, suggestions, questions, ... It is worthwhile? Is it feasible?
| > What did I overlook?
| >
| > Thanks, Dirk
| >
| > --
| > Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
| >
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University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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