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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Donnie Berkholz<dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 16:42 Tue 21 Oct , Neil Shephard wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Davide Cittaro |
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>> <davide.cittaro@×××××××××××××××.it> wrote: |
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>> > Hi all, |
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>> > Does anybody know if there is a ready-to-use eclass for R packages? In |
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>> > princible it should just run |
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>> > R CMD INSTALL ${P} |
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>> > once dowloaded, as CFLAGS and CC are inherited from the ones used for |
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>> > building R... |
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>> > Thanks |
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>> > d |
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>> |
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>> Not as far as I'm aware. There was a proposal to have R package |
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>> support developed as part of the Google Summer of Code (see |
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>> http://www.nabble.com/Google-Summer-of-Code-td15825129.html) and there |
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>> is some support for R packages in paludis (see above and also |
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>> http://www.nabble.com/R-packages-from-CRAN--td16298845.html where you |
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>> got some similar responses). |
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>> |
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>> It would be very handy to have Gentoo (portage or paludis) support |
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>> CRAN packages in the same way CPAN is supported. I don't have a clue |
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>> where to start though. |
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> |
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> As Neil says, one way to go for a generic solution would be to create |
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> something like app-portage/g-cpan. That avoids bloating the tree with |
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> hundreds of ebuilds that don't really do anything unique. |
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> |
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> This discussion seems familiar, so you might want to take a search |
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> through the archives of this list. |
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A few days ago app-portage/g-ctan was announced to the world (see |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-791722-highlight-.html . |
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I might try looking at this (and app-portage/g-cpan) to see how they |
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might be adapted for CRAN (http://cran.r-projec.org/) |
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Neil |
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"The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does |
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not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body |
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of data." ~ John Tukey (1986), "Sunset salvo". The American |
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Statistician 40(1). |
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