Clarify Installation and Development Docs

[dipterix]

Is there any plan to submit this package to CRAN?

[michaelweylandt]

We hope to in the next few months: we (mainly @jasminezhuoy) are currently rewriting all the graphics functionality, so we'll need a bit of time to finish that off.

@minjiewang1991 has also developed some new methods for generalized convex clustering [1] which we might also want to add before a CRAN release.

Do you need it on CRAN earlier than that? We already support installing directly from GitHub (via the remotes::install_github function) and could probably find a way to host binaries via drat if there's enough need.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05449

[dipterix]

Thanks @michaelweylandt

Great to hear about the plan! It's not an urgent issue (as long as CRAN is on your list). OSX has a little bit issue installing from github, mainly because gFortran library is missing from xcode by default. Installing from CRAN after compiled can get rid of this issue. drat is good too but installing gFortran is just easy.

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/

Thanks again for the great package :)

[michaelweylandt]

I'm going to reopen and hijack this issue to focus on smoothing installation stuff. Let me know if anything else is needed.

Need to add:

• Pointer to compilers needed for install (including gfortran on OS X)
• Pointer to suppressing compiler warnings from Eigen (pragma pop stuff)
• Instructions on how to develop clustRviz (locally creating autogenerated files for develop branch)