On 22.06.2017 17:35, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 22 June 2017 at 16:23, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
| So, along these lines, I was thinking if we could / should build a
| pandoc R package, that could just pull the right binary at install
| time.
And drops it in the package? Then we cannot provide binaries for these
package on CRAN unless we also copy the pandoc sources to CRAN, or do I
get this wrong?
Best,
Uwe
Would that make sense? It is a bit unusual, but I think a lot of
| users would like it, and it would help standardizing pandoc versions
| and usage.
Exactly. That is pretty much what Christoph and I do for x13binary to
provide the (also free but nuisance to build) x13ashtml binaries.
Here x13binary is a CRAN package utilizing a GitHub repo x13prebuilt
containing those builds, and "shielding" the binary.
Other CRAN packages such as seasonal then just depend on x13binary and only
see automagic provision of binaries --- replacing and old scheme of manual
download and environment variable settings. Much better now.
| The static binary is good for 64 bit Linux, and we also have
| self-contained binaries for Windows and MacOS.
|
| (The relevant links to the Docker containers and the binaries, in case
| you are interested:
| https://github.com/r-hub/pandoc-builders#readme
| https://files.r-hub.io/pandoc/
Yes, I saw those when you tweeted about it.
Dirk
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