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[R-pkg-devel] Question: Download package JAR from Github URL to /inst/java in an R package

2 messages · Maria Cristina Heredia Gómez, Neal Fultz

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Maria Cristina Heredia Gómez
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Hi everyone!

I have been developing an R package for ordinal and monotonic data named
OCAPIS <https://github.com/CristinaHG/OCAPIS> but algorithms are mainly
built in Scala. So, I provide a FAT Jar
<https://github.com/CristinaHG/OCAPIS/tree/master/OCAPIS/inst/java/scala-2.12>
with the package in /inst/java folder.
Providing that FAT JAR is intended to facilitate the installation to the
user, as he/she will not need to install the Scala Breeze
<https://github.com/scalanlp/breeze> library used for algebraic and numeric
operations. As a result, the package weights 37M and I doubt if CRAN would
accept it.

I was wondering if you guys knew any way that I can specify to download the
.Jar from, for example, the Github repository
<https://github.com/CristinaHG/OCAPIS/tree/master/OCAPIS/inst/java/scala-2.12>
where it is located and place it under /inst/java when installing the
package. Or something similar.

Thanks in advance,

Cristina HG
Neal Fultz
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Hi Marina - several of the AWR packages for using the AWS java sdk are
implemented this way. For example:

https://gitlab.com/daroczig/AWR/blob/master/R/zzz.R#L18

Best,

-Neal


On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 4:45 AM Maria Cristina Heredia G?mez <
mrcrstnherediagmez at gmail.com> wrote: