Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Generating R .pkg file for Mac Distribution

Greetings and Salutations Simon, I appreciate the feedback at long last; but, I fear that a majority of this is scaremongering at this stage. These installers, clang4 and the _unofficial_ macos rtools, have operated since their inception without incident since almost a year ago. Their sources

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Generating R .pkg file for Mac Distribution

ames Joseph" <balam...@illinois.edu> Cc: "r-sig-mac@r-project.org" <r-sig-mac@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Generating R .pkg file for Mac Distribution James, Thank you for the wonderful response and for making your packaging code available (and producing this!

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Generating R .pkg file for Mac Distribution

Just for posterity - please note that the installer referenced below is potentially unsafe and dangerous, because it does NOT actually package the binary but rather contains just an arbitrary shell script and thus you cannot be sure that you get the official binaries or something malicious

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Generating R .pkg file for Mac Distribution

James, Thank you for the wonderful response and for making your packaging code available (and producing this!). Very much appreciated. I wound up taking an approach where I just modified the CRAN R installer to include a few more packages (specifically all I had installed). I couldn't find

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Generating R .pkg file for Mac Distribution

Greetings and Salutations Nigel, I've "augmented" the base R install via an unofficial, e.g. not sanctioned by CRAN, Rtools build. This can be found here: https://github.com/coatless/r-macos-rtools Presently, the latest release only supports the R 3.4.* line:

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Generating R .pkg file for Mac Distribution

Thanks for the responses so far. David - indeed those instructions are up to date, but people are struggling with the issue and unable to fix that (and keep trying to install from source). Chuck - Thanks also for the suggestion, it's a good idea. I'm hoping we might be able to have a one step

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Generating R .pkg file for Mac Distribution

> On May 16, 2018, at 2:40 PM, Nigel Delaney wrote: > > Hi, > > Mac binaries on R are distributed as .pkg files available from CRAN > for installation. Does anyone know if the source script (assuming a > script is used) that generates this pkg file is available

[R-SIG-Mac] Generating R .pkg file for Mac Distribution

Hi, Mac binaries on R are distributed as .pkg files available from CRAN for installation. Does anyone know if the source script (assuming a script is used) that generates this pkg file is available anywhere? The pkg seems to contain a few elements like a postflight/postinstall script that I