notes on distributing a compiled package

[diazrenata]

https://r-pkgs.org/structure.html#sec-structure-binary

https://medium.com/@shiansu/how-to-create-and-distribute-an-r-package-a296217435dc

---

sounds like we want to distribute binaries. how do binaries work for Rcpp packages?

options

• build a tiny toy Rcpp package
• try to reverse engineer a Rcpp package on CRAN
• just jump in with roleR

---

https://github.com/diazrenata/yarn

---

https://docs.posit.co/rspm/admin/serving-binaries/

[diazrenata]

If someone with a Mac but no Cpp compilers can download the yarn binary:

https://github.com/diazrenata/yarn/raw/main/yarn_1.0.tgz

and then run install_packages for the binary, e.g.:

install.packages("/Users/renatadiaz/Documents/GitHub/yarn_1.0.tgz")
with the path to the .tgz file

and then play with yarn, e.g.

library(yarn)
rcpp_hello_world()
toy('mice')

we can test distributing a compiled Cpp binary package...

(to create windows/linux binaries we'd need to run devtools::build(binary = TRUE) on machines running those OS's. seems like it might be a job for a virtual machine but I'm not sure there.)