PS I don't know if you would be allowed to include a utility function
to be run manually by users after setup that would download binaries
from a trusted source and put them in an appropriate/findable place on
the user's system.

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 4:06 PM Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html:
>
> Source packages may not contain any form of binary executable code.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 3:54 PM Jonathan Greenberg <jgreenb...@unr.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Folks:
> >
> > What is the policy on adding Windows executables to an R package?  My 
> > gdalUtils package could REALLY use this ability (right now it requires 
> > users to manually install GDAL which can cause headaches for folks).  
> > Related: what about linux/mac executables?
> >
> > Are there reasonable tutorials on how to do this?
> >
> > --j
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