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Hi everyone, |
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== Brief summary of this project == |
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The aim of this project is to create scripts that automate the process |
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of overlay creation/maintenance for R packages from repositories such |
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as CRAN and Bioconductor. |
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Longer: |
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For the ebuild creation of a single package one needs to extract the |
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package, copy-paste data from its description file to the ebuild and |
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look up dependencies, which is time-consuming. |
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Although trivial for a few number of packages, this is practically |
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impossible to do by hand for repositories like CRAN (> 3500 packages), |
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especially 'cause it also requires tracking changes (new / updated / |
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removed packages). |
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The solution is to automate that process and this is what this project is about. |
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The project's git repository is located at |
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http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/R_overlay.git |
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== Last week's progress == |
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* some code fixes like creating a proper SRC_URI ebuild variable for |
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packages from subdirectories |
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* documentation: started to write the manual/usage guide (using |
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reStructuredText). It's not complete. but covers most production |
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usage-relevant sections. Its html version can be found here [0]. |
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[0] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/R_overlay.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/html/usage.html;hb=HEAD |
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== Plans for this week == |
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* Documentation isn't complete yet, so I'll continue with this task. |
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Regards, |
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André E. |
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