I would like to create a binary package for Windows which when installed will give the user an option of whether to install one version or another.
Here is the problem, I have a package 'FAME' that can run in two different modes on Windows. An old mode that uses R to connect to a remote linux machine and a new way that uses a locally installed database. I would allow this decision to be made at run time, but the DLL in the later case depends upon the database's DLL being on the Windows machine. A runtime solution would require at least one extra level of dynamic loading. So I would like something like this to happen: the zip file contains fame-local.dll and fame-remote.dll when the user selects 'install packages from a zip file' the user should be given the option of which DLL should be renamed to 'fame.dll'. Is this possible?? If so, how would I do it? If not, then are there an recommendations for a solution? An alternative I can try is to have 2 separate packages, 'fame' and 'fame-remote'. Thanks, Rick Jones ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
