[R-pkg-devel] Adding .exes to R package?

2020-01-22 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
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

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Alternatives to R-devel on a Mac for package checking?

2020-01-15 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Awesome -- the key was the "RD", so for me: docker run -v /Users:/Users --rm -ti rocker/r-devel RD (where, on a Mac, I was binding my Mac's /Users to the Docker's /Users directory) Thanks, all! --j On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 2:53 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel mailto:e...@debian.org>> wrote: Jonathan,

[R-pkg-devel] Alternatives to R-devel on a Mac for package checking?

2020-01-15 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
One of the issues I'm running into is that it seems every time there's a Mac update something gets broken with regards to compilers, making it incredibly challenging to get the development install of R working with Rcpp (which is a requirement for the packages I need to use to check my packages)

[R-pkg-devel] Proper way to ask a user to set permanent variables?

2020-01-14 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Folks: My package gdalUtils is a wrapper for a set of binaries on disk (the GDAL Utilities) -- these have about as many places to install as there are people installing it, and the system environment variables aren't always much help (they aren't always set) for locating them. My package is tr