Greetings and Salutations Simon,
I appreciate the feedback at long last; but, I fear that a majority of this is
scaremongering at this stage. These installers, clang4 and the _unofficial_
macos rtools, have operated since their inception without incident since almost
a year ago. Their sources a
uot;r-sig-mac@r-project.org"
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Generating R .pkg file for Mac Distribution
James,
Thank you for the wonderful response and for making your packaging code
available (and producing this!). Very much appreciated.
I wound up taking an approach where I just modified the CRAN R i
Just for posterity - please note that the installer referenced below is
potentially unsafe and dangerous, because it does NOT actually package the
binary but rather contains just an arbitrary shell script and thus you cannot
be sure that you get the official binaries or something malicious inste
James,
Thank you for the wonderful response and for making your packaging code
available (and producing this!). Very much appreciated.
I wound up taking an approach where I just modified the CRAN R installer to
include a few more packages (specifically all I had installed). I couldn't
find advi
Greetings and Salutations Nigel,
I've "augmented" the base R install via an unofficial, e.g. not sanctioned by
CRAN, Rtools build. This can be found here:
https://github.com/coatless/r-macos-rtools
Presently, the latest release only supports the R 3.4.* line:
https://github.com/coatless/r-maco
Thanks for the responses so far.
David - indeed those instructions are up to date, but people are
struggling with the issue and unable to fix that (and keep trying to
install from source).
Chuck - Thanks also for the suggestion, it's a good idea. I'm hoping
we might be able to have a one step in
> On May 16, 2018, at 11:40 AM, Nigel Delaney wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Mac binaries on R are distributed as .pkg files available from CRAN
> for installation. Does anyone know if the source script (assuming a
> script is used) that generates this pkg file is available anywhere?
> The pkg seems to c
> On May 16, 2018, at 2:40 PM, Nigel Delaney wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Mac binaries on R are distributed as .pkg files available from CRAN
> for installation. Does anyone know if the source script (assuming a
> script is used) that generates this pkg file is available anywhere?
> The pkg seems to con
Hi,
Mac binaries on R are distributed as .pkg files available from CRAN
for installation. Does anyone know if the source script (assuming a
script is used) that generates this pkg file is available anywhere?
The pkg seems to contain a few elements like a postflight/postinstall
script that I could