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

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Tue Sep 22 13:09:55 PDT 2009


Triple check that it works with rpy2 and the QGIS plugins.
I didn't really look into that, nor have I tried the new apt-get version
of the scripts.

Alex

Massimo Di Stefano wrote:
> 
> 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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