On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Alberto Labarga wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to create an installer using NSIS ( > http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page) that installs R and some packages, > > I was expecting to use Rcmd.exe INSTALL package_name.zip, but it seems it > is more complicated than that,
Hmm, INSTALL is clearly documented to install source packages. Try Rcmd INSTALL --help, for example. It's actually simpler: you just unzip the binary package in the library directory and (optionally) then run link.html.help() to update packages.html etc. > I know I can try and build the source and create the installer myself, but > I think this could be quicker, I can get some help > > any hint? anybody tried the same approach? We document how to make a custom installer with Inno Setup, so why not use the documented approach? > > thank you very much, > > Alberto > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
