Building the Installers

You need to have Inno Setup 2.0.17 or later. You also need a complete built R, including bitmap device support, Tcl support, reference manuals. You also need, at least, all the recommended packages. The recommended packages are now come with R-1.6.0.tar.gz. SO all you need to do is type:

make recommended

under R-1.6.0/src/gnuwin32/, and check by:

make check-recommended

If you want to add in some extra packages, you will need to edit the:

# chapter for JR software installer.

RECOMMENDED=KernSmooth VR boot cluster foreign mgcv nlme rpart 
survival grid lattice
EXTRA=

chapter in the file R-1.6.0/src/gnuwin32/installer/Makefile. Then, under R-1.6.0/src/gnuwin32/ type:

make
make distribution
make recommended
make fullcheck
make rinstaller

to make the distribution zip files. You may need to edit ISDIR in the MkRules in R-1.6.0/src/gnuwin32/, which are the directory to your Inno Setup. It will take quite a long time, especially the make fullcheck. As a benchmark, it took me more than 1 hour to run through the whole compilation process to get my final rw1060.exe installation file, on my Pentium 4, 1GHz laptop with 320MB RAM.