[postgis-users] FW: [Plr-general] Compiling PL/R under VC++ 2005

[Jan Hartmann]

Does this mean that having the dll included in the Windows distribution 
of PostGIS would enable us to install PL/R without much further ado? I 
still would prefer an installer that gives us the choice of installing 
PostgreSQL with PostGIS, PL/R or both.

Jan

On 27-1-2010 14:50, Paragon Corporation wrote:
> Not quite.  It would make sense to have the dll included by default as a
> contrib file like the others in the PostgreSQL releases I guess.  Not sure
> we need a stackbuilder for it though since we would never include installing
> R in there.
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Hartmann [mailto:j.l.h.hartmann at uva.nl]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:42 AM
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Cc: Paragon Corporation
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] FW: [Plr-general] Compiling PL/R under VC++
> 2005
>
> Hi Regina,
>
> Does this mean that we now finally have a one-click installer for
> PostgreSQL, PostGIS and PL/R combined? I have been looking forward to this
> for years!
>
> Jan
>
> On 27-1-2010 13:36, Paragon Corporation wrote:
>    
>> Thought some people on this list might be interested in plr.  This
>> version works under the Enterprise Db packaged 8.4 releases.
>>
>> Recall prior versions only worked on mingw compiled PostgreSQL.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Regina
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joe Conway [mailto:mail at joeconway.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 1:25 AM
>> To: Paragon Corporation
>> Cc: plr-general at pgfoundry.org
>> Subject: Re: [Plr-general] Compiling PL/R under VC++ 2005
>>
>> On 01/24/2010 11:40 AM, Paragon Corporation wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> We've been trying to compile PLR under the PostgreSQL VC+ version so
>>> it will work with the one-click installer Windows versions for
>>> 8.3/8.4
>>>
>>>        
>> Thanks for bugging me ;-). It finally seems that I have gotten over
>> the major roadblocks with respect to PL/R on Windows.
>>
>> Please find plr.dll here:
>>      http://www.joeconway.com/plr/plr.zip
>>
>> It was compiled with VC 2005, against Postgres 8.4.x and R-2.10.x. and
>> is reported to work against somewhat older versions of R, but will not
>> work with earlier PostgreSQL. I'll have to build a binary for 8.3.x
>>      
> specifically.
>    
>> Before I do anything more, however, I was hoping some people might
>> test this. (Note to Regina -- plr_environ() now works)
>>
>> There is presently no installer. Drop plr.dll in your $libdir
>> directory
>> -- typically that will be somewhere similar to:
>>
>> C:\Program Files\Postgresql\8.4\lib
>>
>> The zip also includes plr.sql which must be run to load plr into your
>> database, and a doc folder with html and pdf documentation.
>>
>> Please let me know if you test -- successful or not.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>>
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