Re: [gentoo-user] emerge R

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Boris Fersing <kernelsensei@g.o> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 17:45, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>> Here's one for the zen masters of portage. There is a statistical
>> programming language called 'R'.
>>
>> http://www.r-project.org/
>>
>> Is it in portage? If so how do I find it without all the problems of
>> weeding through 1000's of lines of useless stuff?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> It's possible with emerge ( emerge -s "%^R$" ) , but I recommend to
> install eix, then use eix-sync instead of emerge --sync. Eix is a lot
> faster !
>
> With eix you can search for the exact match with the -e option :
>
> # eix -e R
> * dev-lang/R
>     Available versions:  2.7.1 2.7.2 (~)2.8.1 {X bash-completion
> cairo debug doc java jpeg lapack minimal nls png readline tk}
>     Homepage:            http://www.r-project.org/
>     Description:         Language and environment for statistical
> computing and graphics
>
>
> or you can search the Homepage with "eix -H r-project"
>
> regards,
>
> Boris

Thanks Boris. that's *exactly* ;-) what I was looking for!

- Mark