Hi Martyn, > It isn't hard to set up Rtools on Windows and you only need to do it > once. Then you build a binary package on your development system to > distribute to your users.
Yes, but since I am working on Linux, it is slightly more steps involved in order to generate a windows binary (even using a virtual machine), compared to build and push source packages to my repository, for which I have shell scripts and make files that do that in seconds and in batch mode. When working in a fast bug fix-test cycle with windows users testing things out often times a day, these extra steps take much time overall. > Without even considering any technical details there is a purely > strategic issue here. If a system has been set up that is robust and > widely tested, like the R packaging system, you are much better off > working with it than trying to subvert it. Agreed completely. I really like R cross-platform packaging and checking system, and was just wondering if this conditional compilation option was possible using the flexibility of this very system. Renaud ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
