[Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo] #453: R script compiles from source, debs available

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Tue Sep 22 14:02:48 EDT 2009


I already tweaked to code last night for most of these packages. I
didn't manage to find the repo key, I'll go grab those now.

The source method works fine I was just looking to save a little time on
the build at some point.

Is backports necessary, that's broken machines for me in the past.

Alex

Massimo Di Stefano wrote:
> 
> from the page :
> 
> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu/
> 
> i've notice the number of packages is limited to :
> 
>    r-cran-boot
>    r-cran-cluster
>    r-cran-codetools
>    r-cran-foreign
>    r-cran-kernsmooth
>    r-cran-lattice
>    r-cran-matrix
>    r-cran-mgcv
>    r-cran-nlme
>    r-cran-rpart
>    r-cran-survival
>    r-cran-vr
>    r-cran-rodbc
> 
> 
> maybe i'm wrong, not sure,
> but if we delete this from the installRpackages script,
> can we create confusion, mixing binaries and source compiled packages ?
> 
> however,  if the source build is a problem,
> why don't build the packages just one time
> then create a .tar.gz for the libraries
> and upload it on the svn.
> 
> So each time the gisvm script well runs it has to download the prebuild
> packages instead to re-compile it
> (this procedure can works only if we don't run apt-get update / upgrade
> on the ubuntu distro. )
> 
> make sense for you ?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Massimo.
> 
> 
> P.S:
> 
> 
> on a fresh ubuntu9.04 machine i activated backports run update/upgrade
> and added: :
> 
> deb http://<http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/>/bin/linux/ubuntu jaunty/
> 
> gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key E2A11821
> gpg -a --export E2A11821 | sudo apt-key add -
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
> 
> can i try to build the pacjkages and create the :
> 
> /usr/lib/R/site-library.tar.gz?
> 
> or maybe is better to do this process on the gisVM machine that will
> create the iso ?
> 
> Il giorno 22/set/09, alle ore 09:36, OSGeo ha scritto:
> 
>> #453: R script compiles from source, debs available
>> ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
>>
>>  Reporter:  wildintellect  |       Owner:  live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
>>      Type:  enhancement    |      Status:  new
>>  Priority:  minor          |   Component:  LiveDVD
>> Resolution:                 |    Keywords:  R, CRAN
>> ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
>>
>> Comment (by wildintellect):
>>
>> Attached file was run on 8.04 more packages may be present in Jaunty but
>> it's a good start. Who wants to go through and create an apt-get and
>> remove them from the installRpackages.r once done.
>>
>> -- 
>> Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/453#comment:1>
>> OSGeo <http://www.osgeo.org/>
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