It would probably help to provide additional detail here; there are several
examples of packages that build C / C++ libraries from source, a common pattern
is to have a package dedicated to providing the library, e.g., Rhtslib or
Rhdf5lib, or of building the library as part of the software
Hi! I tried to look this up in the FAQ & best practices but couldn't find it.
My in-the-works package needs to call a legacy C++ software from time to time.
Since that C++ software is open-source, is there a way to make my package
compile the source (during R package installation) I'm going to
