On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 03:28:23PM -0400, Adam Jensen wrote: > Would it be difficult or awkward in any way to include PL/R [1] along > with the PostgreSQL and R ports? > > [1]: <http://www.joeconway.com/doc/doc.html>
(Without having tried) I do not see big obstacles in creating a port for it. According to https://github.com/postgres-plr/plr/ you need - R headers are required. Done: The math/R package includes all headers. - R must have been built with the --enable-R-shlib option. Done: math/R is configured with "--enable-R-shlib" (see CONFIGURE_ARGS in math/R/Makefile). - R_HOME must be defined in the environment of the user under which PostgreSQL is started, before the postmaster is started. That does not affect the port (probably a pkg/README mentioning this fact suffices). http://www.joeconway.com/doc/plr-install.html shows relevant steps. Moreover, there are already databases/postgresql-plv8 and databases/postgresql-pllua in the ports tree which you can use as inspiration/template. > As long as I am presenting a wish list of sorts, include a carefully > integrated port of RStudio [3,4] and that could make OpenBSD a very > attractive developer/researcher platform for this arena. > > [3]: <https://www.rstudio.com/> > [4]: <https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/> If I remember correctly RStudio has a ton of included dependencies. It probably takes a lot of effort to create a port for it. IMHO: vim + NvimR (https://github.com/jalvesaq/Nvim-R) or emacs + ESS (https://ess.r-project.org/) work well (enough for me). Most of the RStudio R packages can be used without RStudio (like https://github.com/jimhester/lintr) so you have almost the same functionality. Best regards, Ingo
