Support for Windows

[the-magister]

Hi there. I've got a complex project doing frequency analysis for a Burning Man project. Eventually, the processing will happen on small microcontrollers. However, I plan to develop the methods in R, first. The sensor data us MQTT, so this library would be critical.

What can I do to help get Windows support?

[hrbrmstr]

Well, the biggest issue now is that the officiall MQTT Windows distribution (for cygwin) is incompatible with the Rtools toolchain. i.e. there needs to be a distribution similar to the ones here — https://github.com/rwinlib?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=&type=&language= — to enable compilation and I really don't have the time to figure out everything necessary to make that work on my Windows VM. If such a set of binaries existed, I could easily customize the anticonf setup to pull them in like some other R packages do. mosquitto also has two dependences — openssl and pthreads — and I know there's an openssl R winlibs distribution but I'm not sure abt pthreads.

Windows makes these "Needs compilation" R packages a big pain when there are external dependencies.