build_r.R

# For macOS users who have decided to use gcc
# (replace 8 with version of gcc installed on your machine)
# NOTE: your gcc / g++ from Homebrew is probably in /usr/local/bin
#export CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++-8 CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc-8
# Sys.setenv("CXX" = "/usr/local/bin/g++-8")
# Sys.setenv("CC" = "/usr/local/bin/gcc-8")

# R returns FALSE (not a non-zero exit code) if a file copy operation
# breaks. Let's fix that
.handle_result <- function(res) {
  if (!res) {
    stop("Copying files failed!")
  }
}

# system() will not raise an R exception if the process called
# fails. Wrapping it here to get that behavior
.run_shell_command <- function(cmd, ...) {
    exit_code <- system(cmd, ...)
    if (exit_code != 0L) {
        stop(paste0("Command failed with exit code: ", exit_code))
    }
}

# Make a new temporary folder to work in
unlink(x = "lightgbm_r", recursive = TRUE)
dir.create("lightgbm_r")

# copy in the relevant files
result <- file.copy(
  from = "R-package/./"
  , to = "lightgbm_r/"
  , recursive = TRUE
  , overwrite = TRUE
)
.handle_result(result)

result <- file.copy(
  from = "include/"
  , to = file.path("lightgbm_r", "src/")
  , recursive = TRUE
  , overwrite = TRUE
)
.handle_result(result)

result <- file.copy(
  from = "src/"
  , to = file.path("lightgbm_r", "src/")
  , recursive = TRUE
  , overwrite = TRUE
)
.handle_result(result)

result <- file.copy(
  from = "compute/"
  , to = file.path("lightgbm_r", "src/")
  , recursive = TRUE
  , overwrite = TRUE
)
.handle_result(result)

result <- file.copy(
  from = "CMakeLists.txt"
  , to = file.path("lightgbm_r", "inst", "bin/")
  , overwrite = TRUE
)
.handle_result(result)

# Build the package (do not touch this line!)
# NOTE: --keep-empty-dirs is necessary to keep the deep paths expected
#       by CMake while also meeting the CRAN req to create object files
#       on demand
cmd <- "R CMD build lightgbm_r --keep-empty-dirs"
.run_shell_command(cmd)

# Install the package
version <- gsub(
  "Version: ",
  "",
  grep(
    "Version: "
    , readLines(con = file.path("lightgbm_r", "DESCRIPTION"))
    , value = TRUE
  )
)
tarball <- file.path(getwd(), sprintf("lightgbm_%s.tar.gz", version))

cmd <- sprintf("R CMD INSTALL %s --no-multiarch --with-keep.source", tarball)
.run_shell_command(cmd)