On Jul 14, 2010, at 9:22 AM, John Fox wrote: > Dear all, > > Could anyone suggest how to prepare a customized R CD to distribute to > students? > > What I do for students using Windows (still the large majority of those in > my class) is to prepare an R-for-Windows installer that installs a > customized R along with the Rcmdr package and all its dependencies. I'd like > to prepare something similar, if possible, for students using Mac OS X. > Along with R, the Rcmdr package has many dependencies and requires that X11 > and Tcl/Tk for X Windows are installed. >
It's easily possible - you can use Apple's PackageMaker (that is what we use for official R distributions). Cheers, Simon > If it's not possible to create an installer that will install everything > necessary in one step, is there another approach to distributing the > required components on a CD? The object is to make the installation as > simple as possible, since many of my students find software installation > challenging. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > John > > -------------------------------- > John Fox > Senator William McMaster > Professor of Social Statistics > Department of Sociology > McMaster University > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada > web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
