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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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> 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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> 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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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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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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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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