On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Boris Fersing <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 17:45, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: >> Here's one for the zen masters of portage. There is a statistical >> programming language called 'R'. >> >> http://www.r-project.org/ >> >> Is it in portage? If so how do I find it without all the problems of >> weeding through 1000's of lines of useless stuff? >> >> Thanks, >> Mark >> > > Hi, > > It's possible with emerge ( emerge -s "%^R$" ) , but I recommend to > install eix, then use eix-sync instead of emerge --sync. Eix is a lot > faster ! > > With eix you can search for the exact match with the -e option : > > # eix -e R > * dev-lang/R > Available versions: 2.7.1 2.7.2 (~)2.8.1 {X bash-completion > cairo debug doc java jpeg lapack minimal nls png readline tk} > Homepage: http://www.r-project.org/ > Description: Language and environment for statistical > computing and graphics > > > or you can search the Homepage with "eix -H r-project" > > regards, > > Boris
Thanks Boris. that's *exactly* ;-) what I was looking for! - Mark
