new R package : ant
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The ant package has been released to CRAN yesterday. As discussed in previous posts in this blog (here and here), the ant R package provides an R-aware version of the ant build tool from the apache project.
The package contains an R script that can be used to invoke ant with enough plumbing so that it can use R code during the build process. Calling the script is further simplified with the ant
function included in the package.
$ Rscript -e "ant::ant()"
The simplest way to take advantage of this package is to add it to the Depends list of yours, include a java source tree somewhere in your package tree (most likely somewhere in the inst tree) with a build.xml file, and include a configure and configure.win script at the root of the package that contains something like this:
#!/bin/sh cd inst/java_src "${R_HOME}/bin/Rscript" -e "ant::ant()" cd ../..
This will be further illustrated with the demo package helloJavaWorld
in future posts
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