Re: [sage-devel] Re: Use system R with sage?

2017-10-21 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 11:08:26 PM UTC+1, François Bissey wrote: > > > > On 22/10/2017, at 10:53, Dima Pasechnik > > wrote: > > rpy2 is installable using pip (I don't know its requirements); I suppose > it's maintained well, so the only issue here is of technical kind, pointed > out

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Use system R with sage?

2017-10-21 Thread François Bissey
> On 22/10/2017, at 10:53, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > rpy2 is installable using pip (I don't know its requirements); I suppose it's > maintained well, so the only issue here is of technical kind, pointed out by > Francois: libR, the R library needed by rpy2, links > against system blas/lapack

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Use system R with sage?

2017-10-21 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > The first one *should* easily use a systemwide R. It probably does not > require the presence of R on a target system to be compiled (but all of this > has to be checked !). > The second one would be difficult to maintain, given asynch

[sage-devel] Re: Use system R with sage?

2017-10-21 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 10:34:41 PM UTC+1, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > > > Le vendredi 20 octobre 2017 17:30:54 UTC+2, Nils Bruin a écrit : >> >> Do we actually get real benefit from packaging R with sage? >> > > Good question. It has been discussed before. It boils down to a couple

[sage-devel] Re: Use system R with sage?

2017-10-21 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Le vendredi 20 octobre 2017 17:30:54 UTC+2, Nils Bruin a écrit : > > Do we actually get real benefit from packaging R with sage? > Good question. It has been discussed before. It boils down to a couple of factors : - R has been included in Sage for a long time. We do not know which Sage

[sage-devel] Re: Use system R with sage?

2017-10-21 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Le vendredi 20 octobre 2017 18:27:39 UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik a écrit : > > That is what I said a couple of times too. > > In particular, IMHO most R users use an IDE called R-studio, so for them > the Sage's one is not very useful. > R Studio tries to kill two birds with one stone : - rapid