Re: [Rd] Detecting development environment

2011-06-13 Thread Hadley Wickham
>> Is there a straight-forward, cross-platform way of determining if a >> user has all the tools needed to develop R packages (i.e. gcc etc)? >> It doesn't need to be 100%, but should give a rough idea.  One idea I >> had was simply to see if system("R CMD install --help") worked. >> > > That's not

Re: [Rd] Detecting development environment

2011-06-13 Thread Ted Byers
On Behalf Of Hadley Wickham > Sent: June-13-11 10:21 AM > To: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: [Rd] Detecting development environment > > Hi all, > > Is there a straight-forward, cross-platform way of determining if a user has all > the tools needed to develop R packages (

Re: [Rd] Detecting development environment

2011-06-13 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jun 13, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a straight-forward, cross-platform way of determining if a > user has all the tools needed to develop R packages (i.e. gcc etc)? > It doesn't need to be 100%, but should give a rough idea. One idea I > had was simply to

Re: [Rd] Detecting development environment

2011-06-13 Thread Mike Marchywka
> From: had...@rice.edu > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:21:07 -0500 > To: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: [Rd] Detecting development environment > > Hi all, > > Is there a straight-forward, cross-platform way of determining if a

[Rd] Detecting development environment

2011-06-13 Thread Hadley Wickham
Hi all, Is there a straight-forward, cross-platform way of determining if a user has all the tools needed to develop R packages (i.e. gcc etc)? It doesn't need to be 100%, but should give a rough idea. One idea I had was simply to see if system("R CMD install --help") worked. Hadley -- Assista