creating packages for Mac
OK, a boneheaded question ... I've made a set of packages for my students. I'm serving these packages from my web site in the form of a set of tar.gz source packages (constructed with R CMD build) and a set of .zip Windows binary packages, constructed by cross-compiling according to Brian Ripley's instructions (make pkg-foo in the src/gnuwin32 directory) and then zipping up the directories. Now I'm wondering what to do for my students with Macs (besides insist that they work on PCs). For the most part my packages *don't* really contain compiled binary information, and I'm not really planning on trying to cross-compile Mac binaries on Linux (ugh). All I really want to do is provide the packages in a form that the students can unzip (or whatever) reasonably simply. I could try to look at the form in which the Mac stuff is provided and replicate that file structure (which would also mean finding a Linux application to create Stuffit archives), but I'm not sure where to start. I guess the other possibility is convincing one of my students to download the machinery for creating binary from source packages on their machines. Any ideas? Has anyone done this? Ben
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