From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KsLQH-0004NP-Al for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:53:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69783E0460; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:53:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42012E0460 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:53:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (xray.science.oregonstate.edu [128.193.220.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C043D64A3C for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:53:35 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:53:35 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] eclass for R Message-ID: <20081021175335.GA20358@comet> References: <31b34fca0810210842g4388f128obcce3ea99a91c9ff@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+QahgC5+KEYLbs62" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <31b34fca0810210842g4388f128obcce3ea99a91c9ff@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Archives-Salt: 5b215ef6-713f-4823-9843-a304c2e93f6a X-Archives-Hash: 29216aaa1effff1de2792e00d9fd9068 --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 16:42 Tue 21 Oct , Neil Shephard wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Davide Cittaro > wrote: > > Hi all, > > Does anybody know if there is a ready-to-use eclass for R packages? In > > princible it should just run > > R CMD INSTALL ${P} > > once dowloaded, as CFLAGS and CC are inherited from the ones used for > > building R... > > Thanks > > d >=20 > Not as far as I'm aware. There was a proposal to have R package > support developed as part of the Google Summer of Code (see > http://www.nabble.com/Google-Summer-of-Code-td15825129.html) and there > is some support for R packages in paludis (see above and also > http://www.nabble.com/R-packages-from-CRAN--td16298845.html where you > got some similar responses). >=20 > It would be very handy to have Gentoo (portage or paludis) support > CRAN packages in the same way CPAN is supported. I don't have a clue > where to start though. As Neil says, one way to go for a generic solution would be to create=20 something like app-portage/g-cpan. That avoids bloating the tree with=20 hundreds of ebuilds that don't really do anything unique. This discussion seems familiar, so you might want to take a search=20 through the archives of this list. --=20 Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkj+Fx8ACgkQXVaO67S1rtt0hwCfWItUcMZUARJsZnVB+ZaLXySU xOkAn3IEWhl3UAc5ya3I91ZWHYM5DUxu =URLe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62--