Re: [Rd] including additional packages in Recommended

2008-04-15 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
Hi, Prof. Ripley (and Berwin for his off-list reply), Thanks for the reply. Yes, I know this is not the recommended mode. I guessed as much when I could not find a simple answer in R-admin. The is actually our current mode of installation at the client. But some suggestions from management have

Re: [Rd] including additional packages in Recommended

2008-04-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Look in share/make/vars.mk. BASE means base, not recommended, believe it or not. You would need to add to R_PKGS_RECOMMENDED_SOURCES and R_PKGS_RECOMMENDED. On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote: > Hi, R-devel, > > I'm trying to create a modified distribution of R to include several > p

[Rd] including additional packages in Recommended

2008-04-15 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
Hi, R-devel, I'm trying to create a modified distribution of R to include several packages are not part of the CRAN version. I.e. When I untar R-2.6.2.tar.gz I would like to include my package "foo_1.0-0.tar.gz" in 'src/library/Recommended' so that when a user builds my version of R they also