Package: rvtk
Title: Bindings for the Visualization Toolkit ('VTK')
Version: 0.1.3
Authors@R: c(
    person(
        given = "Aymeric",
        family = "Stamm",
        role = c("aut", "cre"),
        email = "aymeric.stamm@cnrs.fr",
        comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8725-3654")
    ))
Description: Provides pre-compiled static 'VTK' libraries and headers so that
    downstream R packages can link against the Visualization Toolkit without
    requiring users to install 'VTK' manually. On all platforms the package
    first honours a user-supplied 'VTK_DIR' environment variable. On macOS it
    then tries 'Homebrew', followed by 'pkg-config'. On Linux it tries
    'pkg-config' and well-known system prefixes ('/usr', '/usr/local'). If no
    suitable system installation is found on macOS or Linux, pre-built static
    libraries are downloaded automatically from the package's GitHub releases.
    On Windows the package tries 'VTK_DIR', then 'Rtools45' 'pacman', then
    common 'MSYS2' prefixes, accepting both static ('.a') and shared
    ('.dll.a' import libs + DLLs) installations. When shared libraries are
    used, the VTK DLLs are staged in 'inst/vtk-dlls/' and an '.onLoad' hook
    prepends that directory to PATH via 'Sys.setenv()' when the package is
    loaded, and restored in '.onUnload()'. The pre-built fallback downloads
    static libraries by default; set 'VTK_LINK_TYPE=shared' before
    installation to download the DLL build instead. Note that on Windows the
    modules 'VTK_IONetCDF', 'VTK_IOHDF', 'VTK_GeovisCore', and
    'VTK_RenderingCore' are disabled because 'netcdf' and 'libproj' are not
    available in the 'Rtools45' 'static.posix' sysroot. Downstream packages
    can declare 'Imports: rvtk' and obtain the correct compiler and linker
    flags at install time via rvtk::CppFlags() and rvtk::LdFlagsFile().
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
URL: https://github.com/astamm/rvtk
BugReports: https://github.com/astamm/rvtk/issues
NeedsCompilation: no
Suggests: tinytest
Packaged: 2026-05-03 20:44:21 UTC; stamm-a
Author: Aymeric Stamm [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8725-3654>)
Maintainer: Aymeric Stamm <aymeric.stamm@cnrs.fr>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-05-11 07:30:02 UTC
