Hi Jack, On Mar 31, 2015, at 5:01 PM, Jack Perdue <[email protected]> wrote: > Around these parts, our approach to R is: > > a) install one of the "default" versions in EB > (e.g. R-3.1.1-ictce-6.3.5-default-mt.eb) > which only installs the extensions that come > with R (as opposed to "bare" which excludes > them) > > b) in a non-EasyBuild tree, we install extensions > the usual R way, which takes care of the latest > versions and dependencies > > c) provide a module that loads the EB R-default > and sets a path to the extensions > > Seems to work nicely...
OK, interesting. This may actually be a reproducible use-case. If it get’s automated I’d call that: R-ugly or R-...-1st_of_April :) (no offense to the TAMU work, you guys are doing your part just decently). Why not poke fun with some build processes which are just plainly insane?! F. -- echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # signal detected in a CERN forum
