On 16:42 Tue 21 Oct , Neil Shephard wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Davide Cittaro
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Does anybody know if there is a ready-to-use eclass for R packages? In
> > princible it should just run
> > R CMD INSTALL ${P}
> > once dowloaded, as CFLAGS and CC are inherited from the ones used for
> > building R...
> > Thanks
> > d
>
> Not as far as I'm aware. There was a proposal to have R package
> support developed as part of the Google Summer of Code (see
> http://www.nabble.com/Google-Summer-of-Code-td15825129.html) and there
> is some support for R packages in paludis (see above and also
> http://www.nabble.com/R-packages-from-CRAN--td16298845.html where you
> got some similar responses).
>
> It would be very handy to have Gentoo (portage or paludis) support
> CRAN packages in the same way CPAN is supported. I don't have a clue
> where to start though.As Neil says, one way to go for a generic solution would be to create something like app-portage/g-cpan. That avoids bloating the tree with hundreds of ebuilds that don't really do anything unique. This discussion seems familiar, so you might want to take a search through the archives of this list. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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