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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Is there a way to do this with emerge or eix that matches the name exactly? |
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> # eix -e R |
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> * dev-lang/R |
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> Available versions: 2.7.1 2.7.2 (~)2.8.1 {X bash-completion cairo debug |
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> doc java jpeg lapack minimal nls png readline tk} |
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> Homepage: http://www.r-project.org/ |
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> Description: Language and environment for statistical computing |
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> and graphics |
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> However, eix is normally case-insensitive. When used with -e (exact match) it |
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> is case sensitive. Trawling through the enormous eix man page looking or the |
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> case insensitive exact match is left as an exercise for the reader. |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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Yeah, took me a little while. |
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I have R installed and it's interesting to play with. It's a misnomer |
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to call it a language though. It's really a complete environment that |
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draws charts, graphs, applies coloration, interesting stuff. I may end |
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up using RapidMiner - also Open Source but I think it's not in portage |
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- as it's more of a GUI environment vs R which is sort of command line |
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driven. |
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- Mark |