Re: [Rd] Including a binary Python Interpreter into a binary R-package for MS Windows

2009-09-04 Thread Guido van Steen
Hi Gabor, --- On Thu, 9/3/09, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > I've tried both these approaches. > > See Ryacas source code to see an example of the binary > download approach. > It has the advantage that the software loads and runs > faster. > > Nevertheless, I moved from the binary download appr

Re: [Rd] Including a binary Python Interpreter into a binary R-package for MS Windows

2009-09-04 Thread Guido van Steen
--- On Fri, 9/4/09, Uwe Ligges wrote: > MinGW doesn't need to be in the package, because you do not > want to ship the binaries. I meant that I would have to include the source code of MinGW, in order to build the MinGW compiler in some writeable directory of the R-user's computer. This is bec

Re: [Rd] Including a binary Python Interpreter into a binary R-package for MS Windows

2009-09-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
Guido van Steen wrote: Sorry: I sent this email to r-de...@r-project.com. So that it got bounced. Hi Uwe, Thanks a lot for this answer. Don't know Python on Windows so well, but why can't they install it? You can also install R with limited user privileges. The last time I worked with P

Re: [Rd] Including a binary Python Interpreter into a binary R-package for MS Windows

2009-09-03 Thread Guido van Steen
Sorry: I sent this email to r-de...@r-project.com. So that it got bounced. Hi Uwe, Thanks a lot for this answer. > Don't know Python on Windows so well, but why can't they > install it? You can also install R with limited user > privileges. The last time I worked with Python on MS Windows was

Re: [Rd] Including a binary Python Interpreter into a binary R-package for MS Windows

2009-09-03 Thread Uwe Ligges
gvst...@yahoo.com wrote: 2009/8/30 Uwe Ligges : [snip] Guido van Steen wrote: [snip] Something that interests me too: What about R's policy with respect to including binary files? I saw that developers should include a file [snip] Please do not include binary files and carefully watch for

Re: [Rd] Including a binary Python Interpreter into a binary R-package for MS Windows

2009-09-02 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Sep 1, 2009, at 17:41 , gvst...@yahoo.com wrote: 2009/8/30 Uwe Ligges : [snip] Guido van Steen wrote: [snip] Something that interests me too: What about R's policy with respect to including binary files? I saw that developers should include a file [snip] Please do not include binary fil

Re: [Rd] Including a binary Python Interpreter into a binary R-package for MS Windows

2009-09-01 Thread gvsteen
n Wed, 9/2/09, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > From: Gabor Grothendieck > Subject: Re: [Rd] Including a binary Python Interpreter into a binary > R-package for MS Windows > To: gvst...@yahoo.com > Cc: uwe.lig...@r-project.org, r-devel@r-project.org > Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2

Re: [Rd] Including a binary Python Interpreter into a binary R-package for MS Windows

2009-09-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:41 PM, wrote: > 2009/8/30 Uwe Ligges : > [snip] >> Guido van Steen wrote: > [snip] >>> Something that interests me too: What about R's policy with respect to >>> including binary files? I saw that developers should include a file > [snip] >> Please do not include binary fi

[Rd] Including a binary Python Interpreter into a binary R-package for MS Windows

2009-09-01 Thread gvsteen
2009/8/30 Uwe Ligges : [snip] > Guido van Steen wrote: [snip] >> Something that interests me too: What about R's policy with respect to >> including binary files? I saw that developers should include a file [snip] > Please do not include binary files and carefully watch for licenses of those > file