I build windows binaries from source. As of now, the only choice is R-revel unless I want to monkey around more with Jeroens’s PKGBUILD script (which is On my to-do list).
It’s pretty straightforward, although I’m seeing a lot of issues with packages which had explicit calls to LOCALSOFT in configure.win as that doesn’t exist anymore. The binaries have passed make check, though. Would it help if I built some and forwarded it somewhere? Avi On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:48 PM brodie gaslam via R-devel < r-devel@r-project.org> wrote: > > > On Friday, May 15, 2020, 12:13:04 PM EDT, Dirk Eddelbuettel < > e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 15 May 2020 at 15:41, Martin Maechler wrote: > > | <whining> > > | > > | Why does nobody anymore help R development by working with > > | "R-devel", or at least then the alpha, beta and the "RC" > > | (Release Candidate) versions that we release daily for about one > > | month before the final release? > > | > > | Notably a highly staffed enterprise such as Rstudio (viz the bug > > | report 17800 above), but also others could really help by > > | starting to use the "next version" of R on a routine basis ... > > | > > | <whining/> > > > > Seconded. Without testing we can never know. R Core does their part. > > > > I provided weekly Debian binaries. One each for the two alphas releases, > for > > the beta release, for the release candidate. It is easy to use these, > for > > example in a Docker container. > > > > It is also easy to use this on a normal machine as they are standard > (Debian) > > packages: install, try some tests, uninstall, revert to previous version > by > > installing that. > > > > Dirk > > This is a very reasonably request, and all useRs who benefit from the > tireless work of R-core should consider doing it. I have considered > it, but compiling R from sources on OS X has been my stumbling block. > At least last time I tried I got stuck at the Fortran step. It doesn't > help I have very limited experience compiling software of the complexity > of R. Really, I've only done it within the warm welcoming confines of the > vagrant image Tomas Kalibera set up for `rchk`. > > I also use r-devel on docker, but that isn't very practical for > day-to-day usage, which is what I think we need. > > What would it take to generate pre-release binaries for OS X (and > Windows)? I > imagine if such were available the volume of testers would increase > dramatically (at least, I haven't seen them if they exist). > Maybe something the R Consortium would consider funding? > > Best, > > B. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
