On 18/05/2012 16:11, Daniel Fuka wrote:
Sorry for this intrusion, but I am confused by two statements that appear to conflict at some level in Writing R Extensions,
You may be confused, but the documentation does not conflict. > and wanted
to make sure I understand the answer to: Can we distribute a portable executable compiled from source by CRAN in CRAN?
Yes. Take a look at e.g. package Rserve (and there are others which do this via src/Makefile.win).
The following section of Writing R Extensions appears to not be addressing this issue, as in this case we are discussing portable CRAN compiled binaries, and not binaries that are submitted to CRAN:
Note that by definition a binary is not portable: it is tied to one OS and perhaps one architecture on that OS. The following is about source packages.
"A source package if possible should not contain binary executable files: they are not portable, and a security risk if they are of the appropriate architecture. R CMD check will warn about them unless they are listed (one filepath per line) in a file BinaryFiles at the top level of the package. Note that CRAN will no longer accept submissions containing binary files even if they are listed." The following section seems to indicate special cases in which packages can create binary files: "In very special cases packages may create binary files other than the shared objects/DLLs in the src directory. Such files will not be installed in multi-arch setting since R CMD INSTALL --libs-only is used to merge multiple architectures and it only copies shared objects/DLLs. If a package wants to install other binaries (for example executable programs), it should to provide an R script src/install.libs.R which will be run as part of the installation in the src build directory instead of copying the shared objects/DLLs." Once again, sorry for my confusion on this point. I just have what I might consider a special case where it would be very handy to distribute a cran compiled executable.
You need to discuss that with CRAN, not here.
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