James, Thank you for the wonderful response and for making your packaging code available (and producing this!). Very much appreciated.
I wound up taking an approach where I just modified the CRAN R installer to include a few more packages (specifically all I had installed). I couldn't find advice about this on the internet, so am attaching a subset of the script I used below in case a future individual also wants some advice on this. Cheers, Nigel # Script to modify the R bundle to add more packages from the users library wget https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/macosx/R-3.5.0.pkg BUILD_DIR=build mkdir $BUILD_DIR # Unpack the CRAN R distribution pkgutil --expand R-3.5.0.pkg $BUILD_DIR/tmp_pkg # Now to add more default packages to the R package payload # First extract the payload pushd $BUILD_DIR/tmp_pkg/r.pkg/ cat Payload | gzip -d | cpio -id # Copy all of the users R packages into this # folder for distribution R_LIB_DIR=$(sed -e 's/\[1\] \"//' -e 's/\"//' <<< $(RScript -e '.libPaths()')) R_PAYLOAD_DIR="R.framework/Resources/library" for dirname in $R_LIB_DIR/* do pkg_name=$(basename $dirname) if [ ! -d $R_PAYLOAD_DIR/$pkg_name ] then echo "Moving package:" $pkg_name cp -r $dirname $R_PAYLOAD_DIR/$pkg_name fi done # Let's remove the debug symbols and their associated plists for compiled code in R # packages, as they bloat the installation find $R_PAYLOAD_DIR -name '*so.dSYM' -prune -exec rm -rf {} \; # Now build a new r.pkg pkgbuild --component R.framework --scripts Scripts/ \ --identifier org.r-project.R.el-capitan.fw.pkg \ --version 30574626 \ # You may want to change this --install-location /Library/Frameworks \ ../../r.pkg popd # Remove original one we've replaced rm -rf $BUILD_DIR/tmp_pkg/r.pkg # Flatten remaining components distributed with R # (necessary to repackage it all). for fname in $BUILD_DIR/tmp_pkg/*.pkg do bname=$(basename $fname) pkgutil --flatten $fname $BUILD_DIR/$bname done mv $BUILD_DIR/tmp_pkg/Resources $BUILD_DIR/ mv $BUILD_DIR/tmp_pkg/Distribution $BUILD_DIR/ (cd $BUILD_DIR; productbuild --distribution Distribution --resources Resources ../R-With-Your-Stuff.pkg) [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
