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

[Massimo Di Stefano]

Il giorno 22/set/09, alle ore 20:02, Alex Mandel ha scritto:

> 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.

no backports is not necessary.

just adding the ubuntu R repository is good, so we can switch from  
R-2.8 to R 2.9.2


>
> 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>
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