Hi, Looking at RStan, I'm wondering what the current thinking is with regard to extra R packages.
Inspired by John Dey's approach, e.g. https://github.com/FredHutch/easybuild-life-sciences/blob/master/fh_easyconfigs/r/R/R-3.6.1-foss-2016b-fh1.eb I currently have a local 'R extras' easyconfig, which at the moment just contains the packages needed for RStan plus one other package. However, separate easyconfigs for RStan exist: $ eb -S RStan CFGS1=/trinity/shared/easybuild/software/EasyBuild/4.0.1/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/RStan * $CFGS1/RStan-2.18.2-foss-2017b-R-3.4.3.eb * $CFGS1/RStan-2.18.2-foss-2018b-R-3.5.1.eb * $CFGS1/RStan-2.18.2-intel-2017b-R-3.4.3.eb In addition, I need to build RStan with the following extra compiler flag: CXXFLAGS += -DSTAN_THREADS Whilst this example would probably not cause any problems in a large 'R extras' easyconfig, there could be conflicts if the macro names are more generic. So is the best approach all packages in a single bundle except for those which need some special tweaking? Cheers, Loris -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email [email protected]
