Hi, I agree the demos should work. But the R problem is one we've discussed. The Kepler installer puts R in place when Kepler is installed, so users should not encounter the problem that Edward did. Developers that are using SVN need to install R themselves. The 'null' message that you got is a problem that I thought we had fixed. I entered a bug request that makes the R actor produce a more intelligible error message when it can't find the R executable. Maybe in init() it should be doing a test of whether R is available and reporting a sensible error if it is not. This could also be solved withthe dependency tracking system that we are designing for modules.
http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3735 Matt On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Chad Berkley <berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote: > Sorry about that. All of these demos used to run until we changed the > repository around and changed the build system. It's a major priority to > get everything back to normal, but it might take a while to work out the > kinks. I fully agree with you that it's frustrating to go to the demos > directory and have a demo not work. I'll add a bug to get all of the demos > working again so we don't forget about this. > > chad > > > Edward A. Lee wrote: >> >> OK, got them, thanks... >> >> One minor issue is that the very first demo doesn't run (I don't have R >> installed). The error message is "null". >> >> I know that if I RTFM, it says in the comments on the demo that >> I have to install R, but it seems like the very first demo should run >> out of the box... Or it shouldn't be the first demo, and should >> be grouped with some demos under a heading "For the next few demos, >> you need to install R". No? >> >> The problem is that if someone doesn't read through the comments, >> they get an immediate impression something like: >> >> "Oh, OK... academic software... doesn't work..." >> >> Edward >> >> >> Chad Berkley wrote: >>> >>> The demos are in the root kepler directory, not in any of the modules >>> dirs. They may move in the future, but for now at least, I think that is >>> the best spot for them. >>> >>> https://code.kepler-project.org/code/kepler/trunk/demos >>> >>> chad >>> >>> >>> Edward A. Lee wrote: >>>> >>>> I followed these instructions, but I don't get the demos... >>>> The folder /kepler/common/demos is missing... >>>> How to get those? >>>> >>>> Edward >>>> >>>> >>>> Christopher Brooks wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I updated >>>>> >>>>> http://www.kepler-project.org/Wiki.jsp?page=UsingEclipseForKeplerDevelopment >>>>> with Eclipse specific instructions on how to build Kepler under >>>>> Eclipse. >>>>> >>>>> The key point is that the Eclipse specific abbreviated instructions are >>>>> at the top and details are below. These instructions are targeted >>>>> towards people that just want to get going on the tree with Eclipse as >>>>> quickly as possible. >>>>> >>>>> Ideally, each IDE would have a quick summary of how to get started. >>>>> We could also have separate platform dependent pages that described >>>>> precisely how to install Java, Ant and Subversion. >>>>> >>>>> I would add a page near >>>>> >>>>> https://dev.kepler-project.org/developers/teams/build/documentation/the-new-build-system >>>>> but I don't have write access. >>>>> >>>>> One problem is that the build failed to find tools.jar so, >>>>> core/src/org/kepler/ksw/KarDoclet.java fails to compile: >>>>> >>>>> ClassDoc cannot be resolved to a type >>>>> >>>>> However, Kepler runs even with this compile-time error. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _Christopher >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Kepler-users mailing list >>>> Kepler-users at kepler-project.org >>>> http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/mailman/listinfo/kepler-users > > _______________________________________________ > Kepler-users mailing list > Kepler-users at kepler-project.org > http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/mailman/listinfo/kepler-users > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Matthew B. Jones Director of Informatics Research and Development National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) UC Santa Barbara jones at nceas.ucsb.edu Ph: 1-907-523-1960 http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinfo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
