[Rd] Where does install.R go when R gets compiled? Or, how to experiment with changes to install.R?

[Jens Elkner]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:33:14AM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
Hello, everybody.
  
> I apologize if this is obvious.  I've not tried to make changes in R
> code within the R source itself before.
> 
> I'm pursuing an experiment to make RPM files for R packages
> on-the-fly. Any time I install an R package successfully, I want to
> wrap up those files in an RPM.   Basically, the idea is to "hack" an
> option similar to --build for R CMD INSTALL.

Hmm, why not take the easy way:

    clean_dst $PROTO
    cd $TMPBUILD
    mkdir -p $PROTO/R/library
    $R_HOME/bin/R CMD INSTALL -l $PROTO/R/library $TMPBUILD

$PROTO is the directory, where the R module gets installed (e.g. /tmp/R),
$TMPBUILD is the directory with the R module sources (e.g. /tmp/build/quantreg)
and the rest is obvious.

Than you need to care about/package $PROTO/R/library, only. 

Built about 150 R packages this way 4 Solaris without any pkg problems ...

Regards,
jel.
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