On Apr 10, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Josh O'Brien wrote:
Many thanks for your help.
I mistakenly deleted my original message (not even knowing that was
possible). Apologies for that.
Heh. I suspect it disappeared from your mail-client but not from the
Archive (or for that matter the multiple rhelp mirrors on several
different continents. I'm assuming you mean this one?
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2012-April/309456.html
The moderation list gets the occasional request for message deletion
for reasons of embarrassment or excessive anonymity, sometimes waving
a European bit of web legislation ... and we tell them it's just not
feasible. By the time the request comes in, the original message has
circled the globe several times.
For future reference, when a section of an R manual (like the bit
from the
'Installing R Under Windows Section' of the R-admin manual) no longer
applies to the current version of R, what's the recommended course of
action? Is it valuable to report it, and if so where?
A heads-up to the r-devel list would seem perfectly reasonable. R-Core
does like to keep its doco current.
--
David.
Thanks again,
Josh O'Brien
Uwe Ligges-3 wrote
On 10.04.2012 20:24, Josh O'Brien wrote:
I am attempting to build a customized R installer on Windows,
using the
Inno
Setup installer.
I am following the instructions in Section 3.1.8 of the R
Installation
and
Administration Manual ("Building the Inno Setup installer"), which
includes
the following passage:
An alternative way to customize the installer starting with a
binary
distribution is to first
make a full installation of R from the standard installer
(that
is,
select ‘Full Installation’
from the ‘Select Components’ screen), then add packages and
make
other
customizations to
that installation. Then (after having customized file
‘MkRules’,
possibly via ‘MkRules.local’,
and having made R in the source tree) in ‘src/gnuwin32/
installer’
run
:
make myR IMAGEDIR=rootdir
Unfortunately, I have run into two difficulties, the first minor,
but the
second more of a stumbling block:
(1) The standard installer for R-2.15.0 does not offer a 'Full
Installation'
option on the 'Select Components' screen.
Yes, the options changed. See the Windows specific CHANGES.
(2) The standard installer for R-2.14.2 does offer such a 'Full
Installation' option. However, despite having selected it, the newly
installed R directory does not contain a R_HOME/src/gnuwin32/
installer
directory (let alone files 'MkRules' or 'MkRules.local'). R_HOME/
src/
does
exist, but it contains only a directory named 'library'.
Yes, the installer does not contain sources (also the one you can get
from CRAN does not contain them).
If you want to distributed such files as well, you have to change the
code that is used for building the Inno installer related files.
Uwe Ligges
Am I missing something important here, and if so what is it?
As one alternative approach, could I employ the strategy described
in the
quoted passage above with a version of R that I've compiled myself
and
then
edited slightly (by adding packages and making a few changes to
Rprofile.site)?
Thanks,
Josh O'Brien
--
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT
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