On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 20:54:40 +0000 Jonathan Greenberg <jgreenb...@unr.edu> wrote:
> Are there reasonable tutorials on how to do this? If you absolutely have to do this, take a look at the tinytex package. It is basically an installer for a preselected set of packages from TeX Live inside a platform-specific directory. However, if you go this way, I would like to ask you to preserve the use of manually-installed GDAL as an option, because I consider manually installed (or distro-provided in case of GNU/Linux) binaries much easier to trust than automatically downloaded ones. "Writing R extensions" mentions _building_ executables as part of the package a few paragraphs down 1.1.5 Package subdirectories, but describes such packages as "very special cases" and requiring a lot of additional hassle: you'd have to provide src/Makefile{,.win} that should manually build the shared object and the executables and src/install.libs.R that would install both the shared object and the executables. I don't think this approach is viable, since latest GDAL sources are about 13M in size (compressed), and maintaining both the package and the GDAL binaries would be a serious duplication of effort. -- Best regards, Ivan ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel