Thanks for the replies from both Simon and Brian. Brian, I have one clarification question about your comment below. You say, "Mac binaries are tied to 2.x.* for one x...." Does this mean that if I build a Mac binary using R-2.8.*, then someone using 2.7.* would not be able to install and/or load it?
Thanks, --sundar On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote: > >> Hi, all, >> >> Uwe Ligges has a nice tool for creating R binaries for Windows. >> >> http://win-builder.r-project.org/ >> >> Is there an equivalent for Mac to create the tgz file? > > It is currently tricky: packages built on MacOS by you or I under 2.8.1 are > likely to depend on things in /usr/local, and there are OS differences > (Tiger vs Leopard) and the Mac binaries are tied to 2.x.* for one x (unlike > the Windows ones). Simon tells me he has now fixed some of the issues, so > hopefully this will be possible in future. > > It is I am told possible to use R-forge to do this (but I have two Macs > amongst my menagerie, so I don't need to find out). > > But winbuilder is a great initiative from Uwe (with some help from his > friends), so all credit to him. Stefano's original Mac package building > service was based on Uwe's work too (same rider applies). > > Brian > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac