More generic version of PBSadmb

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As discussed in issue 1, PBSadmb needs to be extended to other operating 
systems. As a start, it would help to have a database of commands required 
to convert (from tpl to c), compile, and link for a wide variety of 
operating systems and compilers. The commands convAD, linkAD, compAD, and 
makeAD could then implement strings from the database. We should use 
the "system" (rather than "shell") command for generality across operating 
systems.

The intial version of PBSadmb embedded the required ADMB libraries (for 
Windows) in the package. That's probably not a good idea in the long run. 
Instead, a user would first have to install ADMB for the operating system. 
That philosophy is used by other R packages, such as rggobi (which won't 
work unless ggobi is installed).

If we followed that philosophy, we could post PBSadmb on CRAN, because it 
would contain no binary code.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by schnu...@shaw.ca on 10 Jul 2009 at 3:26

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Mark Trudel pointed out a useful web site about installing R in Ubuntu. See:

http://help.nceas.ucsb.edu/Installing_R_on_Ubuntu

This also discusses external dependencies, such as the requirements for rgl. 
Ultimately, I think PBSadmb should work like that. First install admb as an 
external 
dependency, then add PBSadmb to R.

Original comment by schnu...@shaw.ca on 23 Jul 2009 at 2:56

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Original comment by alex_goo...@mofo.ca on 19 Sep 2009 at 5:10

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