[gentoo-science] eclass for R

[gentoo-science] eclass for R

[Davide Cittaro]

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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


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Re: [gentoo-science] eclass for R

[Neil Shephard]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Davide Cittaro
<davide.cittaro@ifom-ieo-campus.it> 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

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).

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.

Neil


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Re: [gentoo-science] eclass for R

[Donnie Berkholz]

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On 16:42 Tue 21 Oct     , Neil Shephard wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Davide Cittaro
> <davide.cittaro@ifom-ieo-campus.it> 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
> 
> 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).
> 
> 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 
something like app-portage/g-cpan. That avoids bloating the tree with 
hundreds of ebuilds that don't really do anything unique.

This discussion seems familiar, so you might want to take a search 
through the archives of this list.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

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

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Re: [gentoo-science] eclass for R

[Davide Cittaro]

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On Oct 21, 2008, at 7:53 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>
> As Neil says, one way to go for a generic solution would be to create
> something like app-portage/g-cpan. That avoids bloating the tree with
> hundreds of ebuilds that don't really do anything unique.
>

Mmm, I didn't know about g-cpan! Thanks! I'll take a look to the code  
and see if something similar can be implemented for R

> This discussion seems familiar, so you might want to take a search
> through the archives of this list.


Fine! I'll take a look then
d

Davide Cittaro
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Re: [gentoo-science] eclass for R

[Neil Shephard]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Donnie Berkholz<dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 16:42 Tue 21 Oct     , Neil Shephard wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Davide Cittaro
>> <davide.cittaro@ifom-ieo-campus.it> 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
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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
> something like app-portage/g-cpan. That avoids bloating the tree with
> hundreds of ebuilds that don't really do anything unique.
>
> This discussion seems familiar, so you might want to take a search
> through the archives of this list.

A few days ago app-portage/g-ctan was announced to the world (see
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-791722-highlight-.html .

I might try looking at this (and app-portage/g-cpan) to see how they
might be adapted for CRAN (http://cran.r-projec.org/)

Neil


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