On 22 June 2017 at 16:23, Gábor Csárdi wrote: | So, along these lines, I was thinking if we could / should build a | pandoc R package, that could just pull the right binary at install | time. Would that make sense? It is a bit unusual, but I think a lot of | users would like it, and it would help standardizing pandoc versions | and usage.
Exactly. That is pretty much what Christoph and I do for x13binary to provide the (also free but nuisance to build) x13ashtml binaries. Here x13binary is a CRAN package utilizing a GitHub repo x13prebuilt containing those builds, and "shielding" the binary. Other CRAN packages such as seasonal then just depend on x13binary and only see automagic provision of binaries --- replacing and old scheme of manual download and environment variable settings. Much better now. | The static binary is good for 64 bit Linux, and we also have | self-contained binaries for Windows and MacOS. | | (The relevant links to the Docker containers and the binaries, in case | you are interested: | https://github.com/r-hub/pandoc-builders#readme | https://files.r-hub.io/pandoc/ Yes, I saw those when you tweeted about it. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
