Sean, You could look at the packages Rblpapi and x13binary both of which do something a little nonstandard, but arch dependent. You can either 'hit it' in the configure or the make step. I can detail if needed.
x13binary is smaller. It just pulls the Census binary in, for Windows that is precompiled. Here is its configure.win: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh cwd=$(pwd) cd inst r_script="${R_HOME}/bin${R_ARCH_BIN}/Rscript" set_internet2=`"${r_script}" -e "cat(ifelse(compareVersion(paste(R.Version()['major'], R.Version()['minor'], sep = '.'), '3.2.2') > 0, '', 'setInternet2();'))"` "${r_script}" -e "${set_internet2} download.file('https://github.com/x13org/x13prebuilt/raw/master/v1.1.26/windows/x13ashtml.zip', 'x13ashtml.zip', quiet = TRUE, mode = \"wb\")" unzip -u x13ashtml.zip cp x13ashtml/x13ashtml.exe bin rm x13ashtml.zip rm -R x13ashtml cd ${cwd} exit 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Similarly, here is src/Makevars.win for Rblpapi -- it needs a library we fetch from Bloomberg (in configure.win) but unpack as needed: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## -*- mode: Makefile; tab-width: 8 -*- ## ## Makefile.win -- Windows build system ## ## Copyright (C) 2015 Whit Armstrong and Dirk Eddelbuettel ## ## This file is part of Rblpapi ## ## Rblpapi is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ## the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or ## (at your option) any later version. ## ## Rblpapi is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ## GNU General Public License for more details. ## ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ## along with Rblpapi. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. ## Distinguish between 32 and 64 bit windows ifeq "$(WIN)" "64" FLV = x64 else FLV = i386 endif ## Standard compiler / linker flags including windows flavor CXX_STD = CXX11 PKG_CPPFLAGS = -I../inst/include -I. PKG_LIBS = -lblpapi3_${WIN} -L${FLV} ## SHLIB target is built by R, blpLibrary is a target we use to expand the tar.gz all: blpLibrary $(SHLIB) ## target to ensure tar.gz files get unpacked ## the opening '@' ensures operations are executed 'quietly' ## in order to see commands as they happens add a 'v' to the tar and cp commands ## curl has '-k' flag to suppress certificate warnings blpLibrary: @if [ ! -d ../inst ]; then mkdir -p ../inst; fi @if [ ! -d ../blp/win/${FLV} ]; then mkdir -p ../blp/win/${FLV}; fi @if [ ! -f ../blp/win/${FLV}/blpHeaders.tar.gz ]; then curl -s -k -L -O https://github.com/Rblp/blp/raw/master/headers/windows/blpHeaders.tar.gz; mv blpHeaders.tar.gz ../blp/win/${FLV}; tar xfz ../blp/win/${FLV}/blpHeaders.tar.gz -C ../inst; fi @if [ ! -f ../blp/win/${FLV}/blpLibrary.tar.gz ]; then curl -s -k -L -O https://github.com/Rblp/blp/raw/master/win${WIN}/blpLibrary.tar.gz; mv blpLibrary.tar.gz ../blp/win/${FLV}; tar xfz ../blp/win/${FLV}/blpLibrary.tar.gz; fi @if [ ! -d ${FLV} ]; then mkdir -p ${FLV}; fi @cp blpapi3_${WIN}.dll ${FLV} @if [ ! -d ../inst/libs/${FLV} ]; then mkdir -p ../inst/libs/${FLV}; fi @cp blpapi3_${WIN}.dll ../inst/libs/${FLV} ## Ensure the blpLibrary target is always executed .Phony: blpLibrary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hth, Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel