Re: [gentoo-soc] Automatically generated overlay of R packages - progress report #7

["André Erdmann" <dywi@mailerd.de>]

Hi Benda,

2012/7/10  <heroxbd@gmail.com>:
> Hey André,
>
> André Erdmann <dywi@mailerd.de> writes:
>
>> == Brief summary of this project ==
>>
>> The aim of this project is to create scripts that automate the process
>> of overlay creation/maintenance for R packages from repositories such
>> as CRAN and Bioconductor.
>
> Where is the overlay, "layman -L | grep cran" gives nothing. May I try
> it out?
No, there's no ready-to-use overlay at this time. You can try to
create an overlay, though. To do this, get the source from [1], cd
into the src dir and run "./roverlay.py --stats -R repo_letter_r.list
-O created_overlay". This will download all R packages starting with
r/R from CRAN and try to create an overlay for them in
./created_overlay. Needs about 300M disk space for the packages and
should result in ~90/470 successful ebuild creations (this is due to
missing dependency rules, see config/simple-deprules.conf if you'd
like to add some).

[1] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/R_overlay.git

-- 
Regards,
André E.