It certainly would be excellent if installing perl could be eliminated. One additional thing that I really dislike about the R installation is that one needs "find" on one's path and that conflicts with "find" on Windows so other applications unrelated to R that use scripts can suddenly break because of R. If that could be solved at the same time it would be nice.
On 5/4/07, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 04/05/2007 4:25 PM, Greg Snow wrote: > > I have used the pp/par combination for Perl before. It is pretty straight > > forward to convert an existing perl script into a stand alone windows > > executable. > > > > Both the Activestate licence and the Perl Artistic licence allow for > > embedding a script and perl interpreter together and distributing the > > result. > > > > The current perl script(s) used for the R package build package could > > easily be converted to a 'stand alone' windows executable and be > > distributed with Rtools for those who do not want to install Perl > > themselves. > > > > The only drawback is that even a "Hello World" script will result in over a > > meg sized executable (due to the perl interpreter being included). > > I took a quick look at the PAR page on CPAN, and it seems possible to > build a DLL that incorporates the interpreter, and then each individual > script .exe could be much smaller. I'll see if I can get that to work; > it would be really nice to be able to drop the Perl requirement. If we > could do that, I'd include the command line tools plus the compiled > scripts with the basic R distribution, so you could easily build simple > packages. The Rtools.exe installer would then just need to install the > MinGW compilers for packages containing compiled code, and a few extras > needed for building R. > > I don't really know Perl, so I might be asking for advice if I get stuck. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gabor Grothendieck > > Sent: Fri 5/4/2007 11:55 AM > > To: Doran, Harold > > Cc: [email protected]; Duncan Murdoch > > Subject: Re: [R] [SPAM] - Re: R package development in windows - > > BayesianFilter detected spam > > > > > > > > Just googling I found this: > > > > http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=186402 > > > > On 5/4/07, Doran, Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> The best, of course, would be to get rid of Perl altogether. > >> In Python, it is possible to make standalone executables. Is it possible > >> to also do this in Perl, then one could eliminate a perl install. Or, is > >> it possible to use Python to accomplish what perl is currently doing? I > >> may be getting in over my head here since I really don't know what perl > >> is doing under the hood. > >> > >> Harold > >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
