On May 12, 2007, at 8:24 AM, Klaus Thul wrote: > Hello, Jean, > > I found the following page quite useful (following the instructions > for building packages on LINUX for WINDOWS): > http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maman/computerstuff/Rhelp/Rpackages.html > > If there is no compiled code (C, FORTRAN) in your package you can do > the following: > > R CMD BUILD ~/foo > mkdir temp > R CMD INSTALL -l temp foo > cd temp > zip -r ../foo-1.0.zip foo > > The resulting file foo-1.0.zip can be installed as binary package on > Windows. >
... but it won't contain CHM help which is now the default on Windows (unfortunately IMHO, but that's another topic ...). Cheers, Simon > > >> At 15:42 -0400 9/05/07, Sebastien Durand wrote: >>> Hello to all, >>> >>> I am a package developper and I would like to >>> know what is the best way to build package >>> binaries for both Windows and Mac installation of >>> R, using a macbook pro? >>> >>> The command I am presently using to create and build my packages >>> binaries is : >>> >>> "R CMD BUILD ~/foo" -> This produce foo.tar.gz >>> which cannot be used in a windows installation of R. >> >> I use the "R CMD build --binary" command under Windows in Parallels >> Desktop for Mac. It works quite well on my macbook with 2Gb RAM. >> See http://www.parallels.com/ >> >> You might want to check VirtualBox too : http://www.virtualbox.org/ >> which is now free (GNU licence). >> >> Of course, you must have the complete R development tools setup under >> the guest Windows OS, which is even trickier than on MacOS (as >> opposed >> to Linux). >> >> I also have a Linux Debian installed in Parallels Desktop and R CMD >> build --binary works well too. >> >> Jean >> -- >> Jean Thioulouse - Labo Biometrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR CNRS >> 5558 >> Universite Lyon 1, Batiment Mendel, 43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre >> 1918 >> 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex - France http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/ >> JTHome/ >> Tel : (33) 4 72 43 27 56 Fax : (33) 4 72 43 >> 13 88 >> # msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # jabber: jt69 # .mac: >> j.thioulouse # >> > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
