Re: [Rd] How to build R without support for translations?
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 21 February 2017 at 18:45, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > | In Section 'Localization of messages' of R Installation and > | Administration (R 3.3.2), it says: > | > |"R can be built without support for translations, but it is enabled > | by default." > | > | How can this be done? Is this an option to 'configure', which I then > | failed to identify, or via some environment variable setting? > > To a first approximation: ensure configure fails that sub-tests by not > having the corresponding -dev package. More elaborately, turn the > corresponding configure variable to 'no'. To identify and manually disable / fail all relevant configure tests was the answer I feared. > > | My objective is to get an R installation (on Linux) that is as small > | as possible. > > I considered playing that game a couple of years ago and decided that it is > more or less a waste of time: as good as 'R the interpreter' is, the real > added value (at least to me) comes from the *incredible* power supplied by > the *massive* number *perfectly well working add-on* packages from CRAN. > > Which nixes the idea of a minimal size. R really is /usr/bin/R plus whatever > you want from CRAN. So for you, what use in reducing R by 10% if you can't > add the 'future' package? Not to mention that many packages may need a > compiler, or a beast like BH, or ... I'm aware this question comes up once in a while. One immediate interest is running R on Amazon Lambda, which only allows for deploying a 50 MB ZIP file / 250 MB uncompressed (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/limits.html). So, an obvious ~7 MB reduction can be valuable / critical there. Thanks, Henrik > > Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] How to build R without support for translations?
On 21 February 2017 at 18:45, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: | In Section 'Localization of messages' of R Installation and | Administration (R 3.3.2), it says: | |"R can be built without support for translations, but it is enabled | by default." | | How can this be done? Is this an option to 'configure', which I then | failed to identify, or via some environment variable setting? To a first approximation: ensure configure fails that sub-tests by not having the corresponding -dev package. More elaborately, turn the corresponding configure variable to 'no'. | My objective is to get an R installation (on Linux) that is as small | as possible. I considered playing that game a couple of years ago and decided that it is more or less a waste of time: as good as 'R the interpreter' is, the real added value (at least to me) comes from the *incredible* power supplied by the *massive* number *perfectly well working add-on* packages from CRAN. Which nixes the idea of a minimal size. R really is /usr/bin/R plus whatever you want from CRAN. So for you, what use in reducing R by 10% if you can't add the 'future' package? Not to mention that many packages may need a compiler, or a beast like BH, or ... Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
[Rd] How to build R without support for translations?
In Section 'Localization of messages' of R Installation and Administration (R 3.3.2), it says: "R can be built without support for translations, but it is enabled by default." How can this be done? Is this an option to 'configure', which I then failed to identify, or via some environment variable setting? My objective is to get an R installation (on Linux) that is as small as possible. Thanks, Henrik __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
