Look in share/make/vars.mk. BASE means base, not recommended, believe it or not. You would need to add to R_PKGS_RECOMMENDED_SOURCES and R_PKGS_RECOMMENDED.
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote: > Hi, R-devel, > > I'm trying to create a modified distribution of R to include several > packages are not part of the CRAN version. I.e. When I untar > R-2.6.2.tar.gz I would like to include my package "foo_1.0-0.tar.gz" in > 'src/library/Recommended' so that when a user builds my version of R > they also get my package and don't have to explicitly do > install.packages. I searched the archives looking at ways to change the > Makefile in 'src/library' but came up empty. I suspect the change has to > do with $R_PKGS_BASE though I'm unsure. We don't encourage it. We do describe how to do this for the Windows installer , but on a Unix-alike you can just use a wrapper script to install R and then run 'R CMD INSTALL foo_1.0-0.tar.gz'. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
