on 07/31/2008 03:07 PM georgiana onicescu wrote:
Dear HelpeRs, I have created a tar.gz package (the package was
created on unix) and I would like to install it in R on a Windows
operating system. As far as I know, R in Windows accepts only
packages in zip file for installation and I could not find a way to
install a tar.gz file. I would like to mention that I installed the
package on unix using install.packages and it works. I also tried to
decompress the tar.gz file and create a zip file but the installation
of the resulting zip files gives me errors. Any help would be greatly
appreciated, Thank you, Georgiana
If you are going to be cross-building, you should read this article:
“Building Microsoft Windows Versions of R and R packages under Intel
Linux” by Jun Yan and A. J. Ross
http://cran.us.r-project.org/doc/contrib/cross-build.pdf
Also see Section 3.1.9 in the R Admin Manual:
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html
I have not done this myself, so I would have to defer to others relative
to any gotchas. Much of any complexity will likely be based upon whether
you have any compiled code (eg. C or FORTRAN) or just R code.
In addition, if you truly mean Unix (eg. Solaris, AIX, etc.) and not
Linux, that will likely introduce other issues, but again, I defer to
others.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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