On 28/10/2009, at 12:20 PM, David Lubbers wrote:
On my linux workstation I have a nice, very little project in a
directory called "mystuff"
I installed "mystuff" into site-library with R CMD build, R CMD check
and R CMD install. This was all with the file mystuff.tar.gz.
Now I want to install "mystuff" on my windows workstation. Can I use
the same file mystuff.tar.gz. Do I need to do something different
with
R CMD build?
Ideally somebody has a tutorial for porting from linux to windows this
way.
If the package ``mystuff'' does not involve compiling any Fortran or C
code then it's simple:
Go to the directory, i.e. library, where ``mystuff'' is installed.
(NB: You want the *installed* version, not the source version.)
Executed
zip -r mystuff.zip mystuff
Transport mystuff.zip to the Windoze machine. Then do the usual
clickety-click thing to ``install from local zip files'' (I forget
the actual wording.) And there you go.
If there is C or Fortran code to be dynamically loaded then this code
must be compiled under Windoze. This is possible, but tricky and
you need to make sure that all sorts of non-standard tools are
installed on your Windoze machine. Duncan Murdoch has produced
a set of instructions for getting through the maze, but I forget
where. Doing an RSiteSearch() will probably turn it up for you.
Alternatively you can use the facility:
http://win-builder.r-project.org
which is provided by Uwe Ligges, bless his heart. Remember this
is necessary only if ``mystuff'' depends on C or Fortran code.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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