R help - Mar 2007 - creating R packs for all

Dear R People:

I am in the process of creating an R package via Windows.

If I would decide to submit in to CRAN, what would I need to
do in order to make it run for the Linux or Mac People, please?

Thanks in advance!

Sincerely,
Erin
Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Erin Hodgess wrote:
> Dear R People:
>
> I am in the process of creating an R package via Windows.
>
> If I would decide to submit in to CRAN, what would I need to
> do in order to make it run for the Linux or Mac People, please?
If it passes R CMD check on Windows it should work anywhere.  About the 
only thing that is fussier on Unix than Windows is the use of the correct 
line endings for C etc files.  (OTOH, Windows adds restrictions that 'R 
CMD check' checks for Unix users.)

Quite a high proportion of CRAN packages were prepared on Windows, as can 
be seen from the executable text files, Windows not having a concept of an 
'executable file'.

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