From stefano.iacus@unimi.it  Mon Oct 15 18:19:27 2001
From: stefano.iacus@unimi.it (Stefano Iacus)
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:19:27 +0200
Subject: [Rd] creating packages for Mac
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110150853460.20787-100000@bolker.zoo.ufl.edu>
Message-ID: <200110151719.TAA09715@mailserver.unimi.it>

If you don't need to compile binaries you should just give the .zip 
archives to your students and they will work fine under R for MacOS.

If you need to compile .C of fortran sources you need the "machinery" as 
on any other platform.

In the latest R-devel archive there are MPW makefiles that you can use 
to build mac binaries yourself. For the time being, I can help you in 
compiling sources and prepeare the script files. Let me know.

Regards,

			Stefano


On Luned, ottobre 15, 2001, at 02:53 , Ben Bolker wrote:

>
>   OK, a boneheaded question ...
>
>   I've made a set of packages for my students.
>   I'm serving these packages from my web site in the form of a set of
> tar.gz source packages (constructed with R CMD build) and a set of .zip
> Windows binary packages, constructed by cross-compiling according to 
> Brian
> Ripley's instructions (make pkg-foo in the src/gnuwin32 directory) and
> then zipping up the directories.
>   Now I'm wondering what to do for my students with Macs (besides insist
> that they work on PCs).  For the most part my packages *don't* really
> contain compiled binary information, and I'm not really planning on 
> trying
> to cross-compile Mac binaries on Linux (ugh).  All I really want to do 
> is
> provide the packages in a form that the students can unzip (or whatever)
> reasonably simply.  I could try to look at the form in which the Mac 
> stuff
> is provided and replicate that file structure (which would also mean
> finding a Linux application to create Stuffit archives), but I'm not 
> sure
> where to start.
>   I guess the other possibility is convincing one of my students to
> download the machinery for creating binary from source packages on their
> machines.
>
>   Any ideas?  Has anyone done this?
>
>  Ben
>
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[Rd] creating packages for Mac
Stefano Iacus