[Rcpp-devel] recommended way to use Rcpp in packages

[Douglas Bates]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Romain Francois
<romain at r-enthusiasts.com> wrote:
> Dear package maintainers,
>
> Some of your package fail to compile on windows 64 with the current versions
> of R and Rcpp.
>
> It appears to be related to the Makevars.win. What to write in the
> Makevars.win file has changed over time as new advice have been given, etc
> ... so I wanted to send an email to advise what is the currently best way to
> do it.
>
> We need two things :
>
> - Rcpp headers : this is really easy, you just need to add the following
> line in your DESCRIPTION
>
> LinkingTo: Rcpp
>
> if you do this, you don't need the PKG_CPPFLAGS line in the Makevars and
> Makevars.win anymore. This is recommended as there appears to be problems
> with both backticks and the use of $shell
>
>
> - linking against the library : on windows, you need to follow Brian
> Ripley's advice : http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/24449
>
> and use this in your Makevars.win:
>
> PKG_LIBS = $(shell "${R_HOME}/bin${R_ARCH_BIN}/Rscript.exe" -e
> "Rcpp:::LdFlags()")
>
> (this might change again in the future and we will advise again)
>
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Are we expected to add

SystemRequirements: GNU make

to DESCRIPTION because of the use of $shell?
> Please read rhe "Rcpp-package" vignette for a more complete description of
> this.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Romain
>
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