According to https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html#Binary-packages “ Policies for when a (Windows or OS X) binary package will be distributed: ”
The issue maker Marco mentioned is a Windows user, which might fits CRAN's criteria. 2018-07-04 17:16 GMT+01:00 Naveen Swamy <mnnav...@gmail.com>: > Hi Tong, > > I hear your comments on how R users already build packages themselves, but > I do think we should provide a easy to install package that comes pre-built > with all the dependencies(MKL, CUDA, CUDNN for GPU, etc.,) by publishing to > CRAN, of course we can start by publishing to a S3 bucket while we collect > feedback from users. I think providing a pre-built package lowers the entry > barrier to use MXNet-R since building the MXNet backend is a multi-step and > non-trivial process, I am not sure if we need to R users to know this in > the first place. > > -Naveen > > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 1:56 AM, Tong He <hetong...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Marco, > > > > There's no barrier on the technical side, as we can statically link > > everything and ask Linux R users to download. > > > > The main reason that we (so far) do not offer the pre-built R package for > > Linux users is simple: CRAN doesn't pre-build packages and R users are > used > > to it. > > > > Some further reasons: > > On Windows and OS X, CRAN has its standard environment (compile with > Xcode > > and MinGW), but on Linux you just have so many options. Users may feel > > confused if the pre-built package is configured differently from their > > environment. > > I am actually not awared of any R package offering a pre-built binary for > > Linux, also R's `install.packages` doesn't seem to naturally support > > installing binary on Linux (no chance to test yet). > > > > Another potential approach: > > There are some R packages having the form as Linux packages. For example > > the package `rgl` can be installed on ubuntu with `apt-get install > > r-cran-rgl`: https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/math/r-cran-rgl . > > People prefer to install in this way mainly to get rid of difficulties in > > the dependencies, or in the environment configuration (e.g. for the > package > > `rJava` one needs to take care of $PATH and the permission of the > > installation). > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Tong He > > > > 2018-07-04 1:20 GMT-07:00 Marco de Abreu < > > marco.g.ab...@googlemail.com.invalid>: > > > > > Hi Anirudh, > > > > > > thanks for that explanation, that's definitely reasonable. Are we > > > publishing it as part of the release process or are these independent > > > efforts? I have noticed that we don't offer the pre-compiled version > for > > > download at > > > http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/install/index.html? > > > platform=Linux&language=R&processor=CPU > > > and thought that we might want to add a link so our users wouldn't have > > to > > > compile it themselves. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Marco > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 7:45 PM Anirudh Acharya <anirudhk...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Marco, > > > > > > > > A release process for the R-package would probably involve publishing > > the > > > > package to CRAN. Currently it is not done and the r-package would > need > > > > considerable changes/improvements before it can get published to > CRAN. > > > > > > > > So at present accessing the package from the S3 bucket is the surest > > way > > > to > > > > access the R API. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Anirudh > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 2:48 AM Marco de Abreu > > > > <marco.g.ab...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > do we have a release process for our R frontend? I noticed the > issue > > at > > > > [1] > > > > > and it seems like we're only publishing to an S3 bucket which is > not > > > > under > > > > > Apache. Is there another channel for our users to retrieve that > > package > > > > or > > > > > is this our only supported official way? > > > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > Marco > > > > > > > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/10791 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Chen Hanyang 陈涵洋
