Hi all,

Is there a straight-forward, cross-platform way of determining if a
user has all the tools needed to develop R packages (i.e. gcc etc)?
It doesn't need to be 100%, but should give a rough idea.  One idea I
had was simply to see if system("R CMD install --help") worked.

Hadley

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Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of Statistics / Rice University
http://had.co.nz/

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