Thanks a lot for your help Duncan,
message forwarded.
Jean-Christophe
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 15:20, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 12/05/2010 8:34 AM, Jean-Christophe Domenge wrote:
>
>> Dear R gurus,
>> some guy at my company would like to compile a script written in R.
>> In short he would like to create an execution directory containing only
>> binaries
>> resulting from the compilation of R and C++ sources, while
>> keeping the said sources on another machine.
>>
>
> He needs to write a new front end. The front end should have the script
> compiled into it, then after initializing R,
> it should parse and execute the script.
>
> The executable won't be self-contained. Normally R is compiled into
> several dynamic libraries (.dlls on Windows); it may be possible to compile
> it statically. However, R relies on its own library directory containing
> installed versions of packages. As far as I know there is no way to avoid
> using that.
>
> By the way, your guy shouldn't expect any support on doing this in the
> R-help list; it's a topic for the R-devel list. And he may not get much
> sympathy there: R is an open source project, and developing ways to hide
> code is not something that interests most of us.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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