Please check out the recent thread "Proper CRAN way - How to handle dependency of java jar file?” About a week ago - I asked essentially the same questions.
Cheers, Rainer > On 3 Jul 2020, at 10:15, Paul SAVARY <paul.sav...@univ-fcomte.fr> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I would like to include external java codes (.jar files) to a package in > order to speed up some computations. > However, this would increase the package size above 5 Mb and this code would > not be working for users without java installation. > > Instead, I could include a default parameter in the function calling another > R package making the same computation but more slowly. It would be best for > users without java on their computer. > Besides, I could allow users to download the external java code from a stable > url, and include in the R function all the arguments to launch this java code > (wrapper for the java code). When downloaded, the jar file should be copied > directly into the extdata directory in the user computer if possible. > > Does it seem feasible to you? > > Many thanks > Regards > Paul > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Orcid ID: 0000-0002-7490-0066 Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zürich Office Y34-J-74 Winterthurerstrasse 190 8075 Zürich Switzerland Office: +41 (0)44 635 47 64 Cell: +41 (0)78 630 66 57 email: rainer.k...@uzh.ch rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug PGP: 0x0F52F982 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
