Hi Kenneth, Thanks. The R views doesn’t install like packages/libraries, but instead (1) installs the “ctv” package/library, and then uses its “install.views()” and “update.views()” commands to install views.
Following your links, I see: easyblock = 'RPackage' So I find the rpackage.py routine in the easybuild install: /opt/eb/software/EasyBuild/1.11.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easybuild_easyblocks-1.11.0-py2.7.egg/easybuild/easyblocks/generic/rpackage.py So I assume that should be adapted to use “install.views” instead of “install.packages”. And the easyconfig would need a dependency on the “ctv” R package. Thanks, Todd From: Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Saturday, February 22, 2014 at 8:49 AM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [easybuild] R Task Views Hi Todd, On 19/02/14 21:32, Heywood, Todd wrote: Has anybody installed R Task Views with easybuild? Or do I need to learn easyblocks to define a new install procedure? http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ I'm not aware of anyone who has looked into installing R Task Views with EasyBuild. But, it doesn't mean you'll need an easyblock though... EasyBuild has support for installing R libraries as a stand-alone module, see for example https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/blob/master/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/fmri/fmri-1.4-8-ictce-4.0.10-R-2.15.2.eb and https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/blob/master/easybuild/easyconfigs/a/AnalyzeFMRI/AnalyzeFMRI-1.1-15-ictce-4.0.10-R-2.15.2.eb . We're going to look into a good getting started guide for writing easyblocks, since several people in the community are at that exact point... More on that later hopefully... regards, Kenneth
