Installation instructions don't include installing the package

[ghost]

On wiki/user>rhbase>Home, I don't see any instructions for installing the rhbase package itself. Since it's not available on CRAN and thus probably requires install_github() or similar, it would be nice to include a suitable command. Maybe something like this:

install_github("RevolutionAnalytics/rhbase", ref="1.2.1", subdir="pkg")

[piccolbo]

Thanks for your report. It seems like it's a real omission. I like your suggestion but there are two problems with it

• windows users don't always have a build toolchain available, hence we make a binary download available
• the command becomes obsolete at every release

My current thinking is to use the github release page and to point people always to that page for a binary download, and then instruct them to do an

R CMD INSTALL _.{tgz,zip} where the extensions are for linux and windows resp. How does that sound?

[ghost]

It would probably be best to just release it on CRAN and let people use their normal procedures, is that not an option? Or does the linking to Thrift make it impossible?

[piccolbo]

Both the dependencies and the limits on testing.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Ken Williams notifications@github.com wrote:

It would probably be best to just release it on CRAN and let people use their normal procedures, is that not an option? Or does the linking to Thrift make it impossible?

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