Re: [Rd] Offer zip builds

2019-06-06 Thread Steven Penny
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 11:06 AM IƱaki Ucar wrote: > FWIW, innoextract extracts the contents of the installer just fine. That is great, thank you very much: https://github.com/dscharrer/innoextract Between this thread and others I have interacted with 14 people, and you are the first person to

[Rd] Setting LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 failed

2019-06-06 Thread Steven Penny
Using this in my "~/.profile": export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 Yields this: $ Rscript -e 'print(9)' During startup - Warning message: Setting LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 failed [1] 9 This is confusing as the exact same environment works fine with other languages: $ python3 -c 'print(9)'

Re: [Rd] Offer zip builds

2019-06-04 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 8:04 PM Duncan Murdoch wrote: > I don't recall anyone asking for the zip in the 17 years after that > change, until now (though I haven't been paying attention lately, since > I retired from building the binaries a couple of years ago). > > If you think it's worthwhile to do

Re: [Rd] Offer zip builds

2019-06-04 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 6:54 PM Marc Schwartz wrote: > I am on macOS primarily, albeit, I have run both Windows and Linux routinely > in years past. With all due respect, then you have no business in this thread. > That being said, these days, I do run Windows 10 under a Parallels VM on > macOS,

Re: [Rd] Offer zip builds

2019-06-04 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 4:11 PM Marc Schwartz wrote: > I have not tried it, but if that is the case here, you may be able to use the > normal R binary installer, but adjust the default install options when > prompted, allowing you to customize the install location and other parameters, > that may

[Rd] Offer zip builds

2019-06-03 Thread Steven Penny
If you go here: https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/windows/base you see EXE installers for Windows. This contrasts with other programming languages that offer both an executable installer and ZIP files that can be extracted and run. For example Go: https://golang.org/dl and Nim: