Re: Managing R packages under Linux

Sam Bashton said the following on 10/27/2007 3:39 AM:
> 
> If I were in your shoes I'd be investing my time in either creating one
> or more RPM packages, if I thought those R packages in use were unlikely to 
> change too often, or creating the hypothetical cran2rpm program.
> 
> Doubtless there will be people who disagree with me, but my point of view
> is that there is already central package management for the system.
> Adding another package management type only serves to increase the
> administrative overhead.
> 
> I've never dealt with 'R' packages, but if they're simple text files
> then building a cran2rpm script shouldn't be too difficult.  If they can
> have dependencies on system libraries (as CPAN modules can) then
> building the utility will be more difficult, but also even more useful,
> as the package can specify the dependencies.

Some of the packages are just pure R, but many have C, C++, or FORTRAN
code that needs to be compiled into shared libraries.  Most of them use
configure and make system to build themselves.

I think you're right that I should work on making RPMs out of these.
Then I can just drop them in my local repo and be done with it.

--[Lance]

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