Simon, If Boost.Thread is only headers, it would be a candidate to include in package BH. This would greatly simplify life for you and the users of your package.
Jay On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Simon <simonqijiez...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Recently, I made an R package that used the C++ library Boost.Thread ( > http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_54_0/doc/html/thread.html) for > multithreading. Previously, I have posted a question at stackoverflow ( > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19651954/is-it-possible-to-build-an-r-package-which-use-rcpp-and-boost-thread-on-http), > but now my questions becomes: > > 1) if I want to upload my package onto CRAN, what am I supposed to do with > Boost.Thread? > > Or > > 2) I want to share my package with others, Must it be submitted to CRAN? I > am not an expert, but I am trying to make my package to be used by the > most, so I encounter these problem. > > 3) Boost is a third party library, and the separately-compiled library > Boost.Thread is used by my package. To make a package stand-alone, the > best way I can imagine is to include the the library source files under my > package's src directory. What if I just publish my package, and tell users > they should install Boost before their use of my package? Initially, I > just want to use what I know about to make an R package that everyone can > use, however, I found that to make the most to use my package, there are a > lot to consider, though under Ubuntu, that's a lot easier, an apt-get > command will install the Boost. The question on > stackoverflow ( > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19651954/is-it-possible-to-build-an-r-package-which-use-rcpp-and-boost-thread-on-http) > is about Windows, from the answer I am not going to struggle to provide > support for Windows, at least now I suppose. Is it a common practice for > the user themselves to install a third party library like Boost.Thread? > > > Best regards, > Simon > > _______________________________________________ > Rcpp-devel mailing list > Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel > -- John W. Emerson (Jay) Associate Professor of Statistics, Adjunct, and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Statistics Yale University http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay
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