Making the standard installer ============================= You can make an install package (rw????.exe) in the current Windows style by using the installer kit Inno Setup 4.1.5 or later from jrsoftware.org. You need the R installation built completely (see ../INSTALL: this includes making bitmap and Tcl/Tk support and the manuals). It's worthwhile testing it too! Go to the parent of this directory and edit ISDIR in ../MkRules and run make distribution make clean You will have rw????.exe and a set of files miniR* for the floppy-sized distribution, both in the ../cran directory. Note that building the installers need ca 85Mb of free memory. Making a custom installer ========================= 1) If you want to customize the installation by adding extra packages, replace `make distribution' by something like make distribution EXTRA_PKGS='pkg1 pkg2 pkg3' (Note these packages will also be added to the miniR installer.) 2) If you don't want to make R from the sources yourself, make a full installation of R from the standard installer (that is, select 'Full Installation' from the 'Select Components' screen), then add packages and make other customizations. Edit ISDIR in ../MkRules if you have not already done so. Then in this directory run make myR IMAGEDIR=rootdir where `rootdir' is the path to the root of the customized installation (forward slashes and no spaces, please).