Set PKGTYPE=binary as default (or R_COMPILE_AND_INSTALL_PACKAGES=FALSE)

Question

Set PKGTYPE=binary as default (or R_COMPILE_AND_INSTALL_PACKAGES=FALSE)

krlmlr opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

Kirill Müller commented 5 years ago

Too many users have problems with compiling packages from source, and actually don't need this functionality.

CC @jimhester @gaborcsardi.

Gábor Csárdi · Answer 1 · Wed Apr 24 2019 17:03:42 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Isn't it enough to set R_COMPILE_AND_INSTALL_PACKAGES=never ?

Kirill Müller · Answer 2 · Wed May 15 2019 05:38:58 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The {tic} package now passes .Platform$pkgType as the type argument -- I'm guessing this will be "win.binary" on Windows. Maybe this is something {remotes} and/or {pak} could do by default?

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/ropensci/tic/builds/24545725#L874