On 2 July 2006 at 10:15, Christoph Berg wrote:
| Package: r-base-core
| Version: 2.3.1-1
| Severity: normal
|
| Hi,
|
| r-base-core's postinst only looks once at the system paper size. If the admin
| changes it, R won't notice the change:
|
| #Sysfile=`/etc/papersize`
| #syspaper=`cat $Sysfile`
| syspaper=`/usr/bin/paperconf`
| #echo "Papersize in /etc is $syspaper"
| Rfile=/etc/R/Renviron
| rpaper=`grep ^R_PAPERSIZE $Rfile | cut -d"'" -f2`
| #echo "Papersize in Renviron is $rpaper"
| if [ "$syspaper" != "$rpaper" ]
| then
| echo "Changing R_PAPERSIZE from $rpaper to $syspaper"
| perl -p -i -e "s|\'$rpaper\'|\'$syspaper\'|" "$Rfile"
| fi
|
| /etc/R/Renviron looks like it is a sh script. Wouldn't it better to call
| paperconf there?
Did you test whether Renviron has real semantics? What happens if /bin/sh
changes?
With R, I generally trust upstream and am hesitant to make such changes. The
postinst check is a compromise to not impose the compile-time setting
"forever". That works well enough.
R itself allows you to pick the papersize via options(), eg
options("papersize"="a4")
which can be put into the usual startup scripts as eg ~/.Rprofile.
And as help(options) shows it also listens to the environment varian
R_PAPERSIZE.
So I would lean towards not making this change.
Regards, Dirk
| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: testing/unstable
| APT prefers unstable
| APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
| Architecture: i386 (i686)
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
| Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
| Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
|
| Versions of packages r-base-core depends on:
| ii atlas3-base [libblas.so.3] 3.6.0-20.2 Automatically Tuned Linear
Algebra
| ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-2 high-quality block-sorting file
co
| ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
| ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-5 GCC support library
| ii libgfortran0 4.0.3-3 Runtime library for GNU Fortran
ap
| ii libice6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
| ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's
JPEG
| ii libpaper-utils 1.1.19 Library for handling paper
charact
| ii libpcre3 6.4-2 Perl 5 Compatible Regular
Expressi
| ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime
| ii libreadline5 5.1-7 GNU readline and history
libraries
| ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Session Management library
| ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library
| ii libxt6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
| ii perl 5.8.8-6 Larry Wall's Practical
Extraction
| ii tcl8.4 8.4.12-1 Tcl (the Tool Command Language)
v8
| ii tk8.4 8.4.12-1 Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4
-
| ii zlib-bin 1:1.2.3-12 compression library - sample
progr
| ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-12 compression library - runtime
|
| Versions of packages r-base-core recommends:
| pn r-base-dev <none> (no description available)
| pn r-recommended <none> (no description available)
|
| -- no debconf information
|
| Christoph
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