Doesn't Rtools provide everything needed to build R packages and R on Windows - including gcc?
Am Sa., 2. Feb. 2019 um 22:29 Uhr schrieb Abs Spurdle <spurdl...@gmail.com>: > Creating an .exe file isn't necessarily difficult. > The main problems are that you have to write and compile the C (or other) > files. > Otherwise, the complexity depends on the level of Inter Process > Communication that's required. > > Simply starting R with some initial conditions, is easy. > Even if you want to prompt the user to install missing packages, it isn't > necessarily difficult. > > It would be possible to take this one step further, and write an .exe > builder, that automates the process of creating .exe files. > Obviously, it would require a compiler and supporting libraries. > I have a preference for GCC, and I'm not sure if you can run GCC on Windows > without Cygwin. > > I may (or may not) look into this further, in a few weeks time. > > > On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 2:27 AM Barry Rowlingson < > b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > > > I don't think anyone denies that you *could* make an EXE to do all > > that. The discussion is on *how easy* it should be to create a single > > file that contains an initial "main" function plus a set of bundled > > code (potentially as a package) and which when run will install its > > package code (which is contained in itself, its not in a repo), > > install dependencies, and run the main() function. > > > > Now, I could build a self-executable shar file that bundled a package > > together with a script to do all the above. But if there was a "RUN" > > command in R, and a convention that a function called "foo::main" > > would be run by `R CMD RUN foo_1.1.1.tar.gz` then it would be so much > > easier to develop and test. > > > > If people think this adds value, then if they want to offer that value > > to me as $ or £, I'd consider writing it if their total value was more > > than my cost.... > > > > Barry > > > > > ___________________________________________ > > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
