R help - Apr 2012 - Building customized R for Windows installer using 'make myR'

I am attempting to build a customized R installer on Windows, using the Inno
Setup installer.

I am following the instructions in Section 3.1.8 of the R Installation and
Administration Manual ("Building the Inno Setup installer"), which
includes
the following passage:

      An alternative way to customize the installer starting with a binary
distribution is to first
      make a full installation of R from the standard installer (that is,
select ?Full Installation?
      from the ?Select Components? screen), then add packages and make other
customizations to
      that installation. Then (after having customized file ?MkRules?,
possibly via ?MkRules.local?,
      and having made R in the source tree) in ?src/gnuwin32/installer? run
:

          make myR IMAGEDIR=rootdir

Unfortunately, I have run into two difficulties, the first minor, but the
second more of a stumbling block:

(1) The standard installer for R-2.15.0 does not offer a 'Full
Installation'
option on the 'Select Components' screen. 

(2) The standard installer for R-2.14.2 does offer such a 'Full
Installation' option. However, despite having selected it, the newly
installed R directory does not contain a R_HOME/src/gnuwin32/installer
directory (let alone files 'MkRules' or 'MkRules.local').
R_HOME/src/ does
exist, but it contains only a directory named 'library'.

Am I missing something important here, and if so what is it?

As one alternative approach, could I employ the strategy described in the
quoted passage above with a version of R that I've compiled myself and then
edited slightly (by adding packages and making a few changes to
Rprofile.site)?

Thanks,

Josh O'Brien


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On 10.04.2012 20:24, Josh O'Brien wrote:
> I am attempting to build a customized R installer on Windows, using the
Inno
> Setup installer.
>
> I am following the instructions in Section 3.1.8 of the R Installation and
> Administration Manual ("Building the Inno Setup installer"),
which includes
> the following passage:
>
>        An alternative way to customize the installer starting with a binary
> distribution is to first
>        make a full installation of R from the standard installer (that is,
> select ?Full Installation?
>        from the ?Select Components? screen), then add packages and make
other
> customizations to
>        that installation. Then (after having customized file ?MkRules?,
> possibly via ?MkRules.local?,
>        and having made R in the source tree) in ?src/gnuwin32/installer?
run
> :
>
>            make myR IMAGEDIR=rootdir
>
> Unfortunately, I have run into two difficulties, the first minor, but the
> second more of a stumbling block:
>
> (1) The standard installer for R-2.15.0 does not offer a 'Full
Installation'
> option on the 'Select Components' screen.

Yes, the options changed. See the Windows specific CHANGES.


> (2) The standard installer for R-2.14.2 does offer such a 'Full
> Installation' option. However, despite having selected it, the newly
> installed R directory does not contain a R_HOME/src/gnuwin32/installer
> directory (let alone files 'MkRules' or 'MkRules.local').
R_HOME/src/ does
> exist, but it contains only a directory named 'library'.
Yes, the installer does not contain sources (also the one you can get 
from CRAN does not contain them).
If you want to distributed such files as well, you have to change the 
code that is used for building the Inno installer related files.

Uwe Ligges

>
> Am I missing something important here, and if so what is it?
>
> As one alternative approach, could I employ the strategy described in the
> quoted passage above with a version of R that I've compiled myself and
then
> edited slightly (by adding packages and making a few changes to
> Rprofile.site)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh O'Brien
>
>
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