Re: [R] Building customized R for Windows installer using 'make myR'
On 10.04.2012 20:24, Josh O'Brien wrote: I am attempting to build a customized R installer on Windows, using the Inno Setup installer. I am following the instructions in Section 3.1.8 of the R Installation and Administration Manual (Building the Inno Setup installer), which includes the following passage: An alternative way to customize the installer starting with a binary distribution is to first make a full installation of R from the standard installer (that is, select ‘Full Installation’ from the ‘Select Components’ screen), then add packages and make other customizations to that installation. Then (after having customized file ‘MkRules’, possibly via ‘MkRules.local’, and having made R in the source tree) in ‘src/gnuwin32/installer’ run : make myR IMAGEDIR=rootdir Unfortunately, I have run into two difficulties, the first minor, but the second more of a stumbling block: (1) The standard installer for R-2.15.0 does not offer a 'Full Installation' option on the 'Select Components' screen. Yes, the options changed. See the Windows specific CHANGES. (2) The standard installer for R-2.14.2 does offer such a 'Full Installation' option. However, despite having selected it, the newly installed R directory does not contain a R_HOME/src/gnuwin32/installer directory (let alone files 'MkRules' or 'MkRules.local'). R_HOME/src/ does exist, but it contains only a directory named 'library'. Yes, the installer does not contain sources (also the one you can get from CRAN does not contain them). If you want to distributed such files as well, you have to change the code that is used for building the Inno installer related files. Uwe Ligges Am I missing something important here, and if so what is it? As one alternative approach, could I employ the strategy described in the quoted passage above with a version of R that I've compiled myself and then edited slightly (by adding packages and making a few changes to Rprofile.site)? Thanks, Josh O'Brien -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Building-customized-R-for-Windows-installer-using-make-myR-tp4546508p4546508.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Building customized R for Windows installer using 'make myR'
Many thanks for your help. I mistakenly deleted my original message (not even knowing that was possible). Apologies for that. For future reference, when a section of an R manual (like the bit from the 'Installing R Under Windows Section' of the R-admin manual) no longer applies to the current version of R, what's the recommended course of action? Is it valuable to report it, and if so where? Thanks again, Josh O'Brien Uwe Ligges-3 wrote On 10.04.2012 20:24, Josh O'Brien wrote: I am attempting to build a customized R installer on Windows, using the Inno Setup installer. I am following the instructions in Section 3.1.8 of the R Installation and Administration Manual (Building the Inno Setup installer), which includes the following passage: An alternative way to customize the installer starting with a binary distribution is to first make a full installation of R from the standard installer (that is, select ‘Full Installation’ from the ‘Select Components’ screen), then add packages and make other customizations to that installation. Then (after having customized file ‘MkRules’, possibly via ‘MkRules.local’, and having made R in the source tree) in ‘src/gnuwin32/installer’ run : make myR IMAGEDIR=rootdir Unfortunately, I have run into two difficulties, the first minor, but the second more of a stumbling block: (1) The standard installer for R-2.15.0 does not offer a 'Full Installation' option on the 'Select Components' screen. Yes, the options changed. See the Windows specific CHANGES. (2) The standard installer for R-2.14.2 does offer such a 'Full Installation' option. However, despite having selected it, the newly installed R directory does not contain a R_HOME/src/gnuwin32/installer directory (let alone files 'MkRules' or 'MkRules.local'). R_HOME/src/ does exist, but it contains only a directory named 'library'. Yes, the installer does not contain sources (also the one you can get from CRAN does not contain them). If you want to distributed such files as well, you have to change the code that is used for building the Inno installer related files. Uwe Ligges Am I missing something important here, and if so what is it? As one alternative approach, could I employ the strategy described in the quoted passage above with a version of R that I've compiled myself and then edited slightly (by adding packages and making a few changes to Rprofile.site)? Thanks, Josh O'Brien -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Building-customized-R-for-Windows-installer-using-make-myR-tp4546508p4546508.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@ mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@ mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Building-customized-R-for-Windows-installer-using-make-myR-tp4546508p4547413.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Building customized R for Windows installer using 'make myR'
On Apr 10, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Josh O'Brien wrote: Many thanks for your help. I mistakenly deleted my original message (not even knowing that was possible). Apologies for that. Heh. I suspect it disappeared from your mail-client but not from the Archive (or for that matter the multiple rhelp mirrors on several different continents. I'm assuming you mean this one? https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2012-April/309456.html The moderation list gets the occasional request for message deletion for reasons of embarrassment or excessive anonymity, sometimes waving a European bit of web legislation ... and we tell them it's just not feasible. By the time the request comes in, the original message has circled the globe several times. For future reference, when a section of an R manual (like the bit from the 'Installing R Under Windows Section' of the R-admin manual) no longer applies to the current version of R, what's the recommended course of action? Is it valuable to report it, and if so where? A heads-up to the r-devel list would seem perfectly reasonable. R-Core does like to keep its doco current. -- David. Thanks again, Josh O'Brien Uwe Ligges-3 wrote On 10.04.2012 20:24, Josh O'Brien wrote: I am attempting to build a customized R installer on Windows, using the Inno Setup installer. I am following the instructions in Section 3.1.8 of the R Installation and Administration Manual (Building the Inno Setup installer), which includes the following passage: An alternative way to customize the installer starting with a binary distribution is to first make a full installation of R from the standard installer (that is, select ‘Full Installation’ from the ‘Select Components’ screen), then add packages and make other customizations to that installation. Then (after having customized file ‘MkRules’, possibly via ‘MkRules.local’, and having made R in the source tree) in ‘src/gnuwin32/ installer’ run : make myR IMAGEDIR=rootdir Unfortunately, I have run into two difficulties, the first minor, but the second more of a stumbling block: (1) The standard installer for R-2.15.0 does not offer a 'Full Installation' option on the 'Select Components' screen. Yes, the options changed. See the Windows specific CHANGES. (2) The standard installer for R-2.14.2 does offer such a 'Full Installation' option. However, despite having selected it, the newly installed R directory does not contain a R_HOME/src/gnuwin32/ installer directory (let alone files 'MkRules' or 'MkRules.local'). R_HOME/ src/ does exist, but it contains only a directory named 'library'. Yes, the installer does not contain sources (also the one you can get from CRAN does not contain them). If you want to distributed such files as well, you have to change the code that is used for building the Inno installer related files. Uwe Ligges Am I missing something important here, and if so what is it? As one alternative approach, could I employ the strategy described in the quoted passage above with a version of R that I've compiled myself and then edited slightly (by adding packages and making a few changes to Rprofile.site)? Thanks, Josh O'Brien -- David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
