Q: Is it recommended to compile the package outside of R?

[candychiu]

I'd like compile a custom package outside of R using another IDE. Here are the steps I am taking:

1. Generate package using Rcpp.package.skeleton.
2. Create an interface cpp file which contains the // [[Rcpp::export]] functions.
3. Run compileAttributes. At this point, I have all the interface files I need to compile.
4. In the IDE, compile a dll with the cpp files generated above. Put the dll in the proper package location.
5. Build package in a command window by R CMD build mypackage.

Can anyone see any potential problem with this procedure?

[eddelbuettel]

You are making up the process from 1. to 5. so you get to answer your own questions.

R has worked hard to provide its own extremely reliable build mechanism, and Rcpp uses that. All that is sufficiently documented. Unless you give a good reason not, I plan to close this as there is no documented shortcoming in Rcpp here -- you just happen to think you need another IDE. Which is fine. But you get to work out how to use it.

[candychiu]

@eddelbuettel Thanks.