On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Donnie Berkholz<[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
A few days ago app-portage/g-ctan was announced to the world (see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-791722-highlight-.html . I might try looking at this (and app-portage/g-cpan) to see how they might be adapted for CRAN (http://cran.r-projec.org/) Neil -- "The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data." ~ John Tukey (1986), "Sunset salvo". The American Statistician 40(1). Email - [email protected] Website - http://slack.ser.man.ac.uk/ Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackline/
