An alternative to cross-compiling when you have a source package is to use the Win-builder facility at win-builder.R-project.org
Thanks to Uwe for providing this facility. I find it much, much easier than trying to cross-compile or to set up a Windows computer for compiling R packages. On 9/14/07, Scott Hyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a Linux computer and do all of my work from it. However, I > teach also, which means that many of my students use windows. Hence, > I need to create packages that work under windows as well as Linux. I > have tried to follow the directions at > > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/cross-build.pdf > > which is the document "Building Microsoft Windows Versions of R and R > packages under Intel Linux". This has been very helpful. However, > the file R_Tcl.zip is no longer available, so I cannot compile R for > Windows using the "make R" command as described in the document. Is > it necessary to have the Tcl sources in there? If it is, how should > the directions be modified to enable the complete compilation of R? > > None of my code contains C, Fortran, or any other language. It is > just plain R code. I would think that this would be easier to convert > over. Is it? I tried the following and it seems to work, but I'd > like to know if it is safe. > > 1. Build package with "pre-compiled binary package" option "R CMD > build --binary pkgname" > 2. convert the resulting tar.gz file to a zip archive. > 3. Install it on a windows machine. > > This process successfully works when I install it on a windows > machine, but I have no idea how safe it is. > > -- > ***************************************************************** > Scott K. Hyde > Assistant Professor of Statistics and Mathematics > School of Computing > Brigham Young University -- Hawaii > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
