R help - Oct 2008 - Inno setup script request

Dear all,

I am a public resaerch engineer in marseille (France) and I am currently
developping a free software for high throughput experiments in biology using 
mainly R (bioconductor). This project is almost at a finalisation stage and I
would like to  build an installshield  using  innosetup  for the windows version
of my software. The ideal case would  be to also include the required 2.6
version of R  directly in the  installshield, but I am  more familiar with linux
than  with windows, and the easyest way for me  do do that would probably be to 
modify the innosetup script for R installation to include my files rather than
the contrary...

Would you see any opposition against doing so?  and if not,  would it  be
possible for you to send me the innosetup script related to the 2.6.2 version of
R?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help!

Best regards,

SJ

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Sebastien Jaeger, PhD (CNRS)
Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML)
Parc scientifique de luminy, case 906,
13288 Marseille cedex 09
Tel: +33 4 91 26 94 43

On 10/30/2008 7:53 AM, Sebastien JAEGER wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am a public resaerch engineer in marseille (France) and I am currently
developping a free software for high throughput experiments in biology using 
mainly R (bioconductor). This project is almost at a finalisation stage and I
would like to  build an installshield  using  innosetup  for the windows version
of my software. The ideal case would  be to also include the required 2.6
version of R  directly in the  installshield, but I am  more familiar with linux
than  with windows, and the easyest way for me  do do that would probably be to 
modify the innosetup script for R installation to include my files rather than
the contrary...
> 
> Would you see any opposition against doing so?  and if not,  would it  be
possible for you to send me the innosetup script related to the 2.6.2 version of
R?
This is certainly possible; the easiest way is to wrap your code in an R 
package.  Then the Installation and Administration manual describes how 
to get your package included with the R build (see "Building the Inno 
Setup Installer").

Be careful with your license:  distributing R this way will require you 
to license the package in a GPL 2 compatible way.  So "free" can't
just
mean "gratis", it means "libre" too.

Duncan Murdoch

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Sebastien JAEGER wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am a public resaerch engineer in marseille (France) and I am currently
developping a free software for high throughput experiments in biology using 
mainly R (bioconductor). This project is almost at a finalisation stage and I
would like to  build an installshield  using  innosetup  for the windows version
of my software. The ideal case would  be to also include the required 2.6
version of R  directly in the  installshield, but I am  more familiar with linux
than  with windows, and the easyest way for me  do do that would probably be to 
modify the innosetup script for R installation to include my files rather than
the contrary...
>
> Would you see any opposition against doing so?  and if not,  would it  be
possible for you to send me the innosetup script related to the 2.6.2 version of
R?
R is GPL, and the script is part of the sources: it is generated by a Perl 
script src/gnuwin32/installer/JRins.pl.  So if you build R from the 
sources, you will get the script (R.iss).
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for your help!
>
> Best regards,
>
> SJ
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Sebastien Jaeger, PhD (CNRS)
> Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML)
> Parc scientifique de luminy, case 906,
> 13288 Marseille cedex 09
> Tel: +33 4 91 26 94 43
>
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