I apologize for what is likely a stupid question - I HAVE looked through "Writing R Extensions" and HAVE gone through existing help requests, but have not yet found an answer. I'm sorry if I've missed something obvious.
I am planning on building a package in the near future. I have a number of C programs that I have written to interface with R (compiled using the R SHLIB, run using the .C convention). I now run a Linux system, but seem to remember that for Mac and Windows implementations of R, Rtools is required separately in order to run compiled C code that interfaces directly with R. I am wondering whether any packages that I write using such C code will require end users of PC and Mac to have Rtools installed, or whether there is a way to build the package such that this is not the case. I ask this because I would like the package to be relatively painlessly portable, and know many users who have had trouble installing Rtools on their Mac or PC. Many thanks, Adam -- Adam Clark University of Minnesota, EEB 100 Ecology Building 1987 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul, MN 55108 (857)-544-6782 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.