Hi All, First off thanks to everyone for help on this, this is a great community. Currently R has been tied up on my Linux machine and I don't think it will be free for a couple more days. I'll let everyone know if I can get this to work, so stay tuned!
Cheers, Josh On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11 October 2008 at 20:12, Edzer J. Pebesma wrote: > | something like > | > | R CMD INSTALL RSAGA_version_x.y.tar.gz > | > | possibly preceded with a "sudo", so that it becomes installed > | system-wide. And then see if it works! > > Yup, and if it doesn't, try to debug where maybe Windows-specific commands or > settings are used. It should be easy to overcome this -- many R packages do. > > Dirk > > | -- > | Edzer > | > | Josh Harmsen wrote: > | > I've actually already had correspondence with the author, he thought > | > it was possible to do, but asked me to find out what would be needed > | > to get it in a Linux environment and I was going to get back to him. > | > SAGA actually compiles nicely in Linux (the gui and cmd) and I have > | > successfully done this, so that should not be the issue. > | > > | > Here is what we have: > | > R Source package for RSAGA (and author cced!) > | > Windows Binary for RSAGA (no use to us) > | > SAGA compiles for Ubuntu Hardy with no problems > | > > | > So with this, what are the necessary steps? > | > > | > Thanks, > | > > | > Josh > | > > | > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Edzer Pebesma > | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > > | >> The other option I would recommend is to contact the package author > (Cc:), > | >> and ask what he thinks would be needed to port RSAGA to linux. I'm not > sure > | >> about this, but I believe he or someone else once mentioned that SAGA (to > | >> which RSAGA interfaces) has a command line interface that is only > available > | >> on the windows platform. If that is the case, SAGA would be the project > to > | >> push first to get this running under linux. > | >> -- > | >> Edzer > | >> > | >> Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | >> > | >>> On 10 October 2008 at 15:42, Josh Harmsen wrote: > | >>> | The package is RSAGA > | >>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RSAGA/index.html > | >>> | | CRAN does have the package source available, which is what I want to > | >>> | get to work in R on a Ubuntu Hardy 64bit. If the process is trivial > | >>> | could you guide me through it or point me to a resource that explains > | >>> | it? > | >>> > | >>> Not knowing anything about the particular details of this package I'd > | >>> refer > | >>> you to what the package author clearly states in the DESCRIPTION info > for > | >>> the > | >>> package that is available at the URL you provide that: > | >>> > | >>> SystemRequirements: Windows, SAGA (>=2.0.2) > | >>> > | >>> To make that even more plain, RSAGA depends > | >>> a) on SAGA (do you have that on Ubuntu amd64 ?), and > | >>> b) on Windows. > | >>> You are, in other words, out of luck. > | >>> Look into virtualbox, a rather nice virtualization package included in > | >>> Ubuntu > | >>> in the 'open source edition' and look into installing a Windows session > | >>> inside your Ubuntu system. You can share folders etc pp. Maybe that can > | >>> help > | >>> you. > | >>> > | >>> Dirk > | >>> > | >>> > | >>> > | >> -- > | >> Edzer Pebesma > | >> Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), University of Münster, > | >> Weseler Straße 253, 48151 Münster, Germany. Phone: +49 251 > | >> 8333081, Fax: +49 251 8339763 http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/ > | >> http://www.springer.com/978-0-387-78170-9 > | >> > | >> > | >> > | > > -- > Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
