Message-ID: <39f0a9dc.167697614@fisher.stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2000-10-18T13:57:20Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: "wizard" for building R-packages...
In-Reply-To: <14829.34888.734719.113850@mithrandir.hornik.net>
For people like me who mainly use Windows, the package documentation
is rather intimidating. It's not clear which parts of it work and
which don't, or what tools beyond base R I need to build a package
entirely within Windows (or if that is even possible).
A wizard would be helpful, but it's a lot of work for relatively few
people to use. An easier solution would be a short document listing
all the steps necessary to build a package in Windows, including at
least pointers to the document of all the tools that should be
installed first.
This should probably contain two sections: building a package that's
intended to be portable to other systems, and building one that's
going to be packaged in a .zip file for Windows-only use.
If someone wants to volunteer to answer questions when I get stuck,
I'll volunteer to produce the document.
Duncan Murdoch
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