Because: I still fail to understand why keep posting on this as you > obviously do not > use Debian or Ubuntu. > 1) I obviously could help him (reminding /usr/local/xxx or any directory should be writable does not hurt, does it? Even if it has been done 7 years ago - docs change and are forgotten- )
2 )Some friends of mine use Debian derived or Windows : I I find _a_ good reason to keep/use Debian, I am not of the sectary kind (any objections?) ... 3 ) I sincerely thought R was sect/distribution agnostic 4 ) I have a mind open enough to look for other distributions/ package managers (binary P.M. should be easier - available recent doc, etc... - than compiling from source, should not they???) 5) talking about doc: GNU linux magazine dedicated a full _and interesting_ release to Debian package managing: that the bright side, not the "looking for political correctness" à la McCarthy, , of Debian... --- En date de : Mar 28.9.10, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> a écrit : > De: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> > Objet: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Re : Howto compile chemometrics package from source > À: "denis brion" <[email protected]> > Cc: > Date: Mardi 28 septembre 2010, 17h11 > > Denis, > > I still fail to understand why keep posting on this as you > obviously do not > use Debian or Ubuntu. > > On 28 September 2010 at 14:27, denis brion wrote: > | Dear Jose Brasil > | D. Bates already gave you a response on how to install > from sources; however, as chemometrics depends (at least on > som, mvtnorm, mclust, pls, robustbase, e1071, pcaPP, pls, > lars) on other packages, you should have them already > installed, either > | binary or > | from sources before trying to install chemometrics (else, > "R CMD INSTALL" will complain and give the list of what is > missing): > | R CMD INSTALL e1071_1.5-24.tar.gz > | R CMD INSTALL lars_0.9-7.tar.gz ( > | then, pcaPP_1.8-2.tar.gz, som_0.3.5.tar.gz, etc..) > | > | The main drawback of this way of installing from sources > is that you must manage by yourself dependencies, and > upgrade by yourself, even for complicated packages.... > | > | BTW : you might have little isues if you install packages > in /usr/lib/R, as you might mess the packages you had > compiled with the packages your package manager > automatically manages... > | Adding "export R_LIBS=/usr/local/lib/R/library" (or > any name of a directory you can write on) > > Yes, that idea is *so good* that it has been the > *implemented default* since > 2003. From the file /etc/R/Renviron: > > # edd Apr 2003 Allow local install in /usr/local, > also add a directory for > # > Debian packaged CRAN packages, and finally > the default dir > # edd Jul 2007 Now use R_LIBS_SITE, not R_LIBS > R_LIBS_SITE=${R_LIBS_SITE-'/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:/usr/lib/R/site-library:/usr/lib/R/library'} > > > Dirk > > > | before installing from source and before invoking the > libraries might be useful. > | > | Have nice days > | D.Brion > | > | > | --- En date de : Lun 27.9.10, Jose Brasil <[email protected]> > a écrit : > | > | > De: Jose Brasil <[email protected]> > | > Objet: [R-sig-Debian] Howto compile chemometrics > package from source > | > À: [email protected] > | > Date: Lundi 27 septembre 2010, 21h30 > | > Dear friends, > | > > | > I'm confused about how to install packages from > source. > | > > | > I just updated R in Lenny from http://cran.fiocruz.br/bin/linux/debian/ > | > > | > I included in sources.list: > | > > | > deb http://cran.fiocruz.br/bin/linux/debian > | > lenny-cran/ > | > deb-src http://cran.fiocruz.br/bin/linux/debian lenny-cran/ > | > > | > Then: > | > apt-get update > | > apt-get install r-base r-base-dev > | > > | > Then I downloaded the package > chemometrics_0.8.tar.gz > | > from > | > http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/chemometrics_0.8.tar.gz > | > > | > After untar I copied the dir chemometrics to > | > /usr/lib/R/library and > | > tried install.package(chemometrics) from R prompt > (as > | > root): > | > > | > install.packages(chemometrics) > | > Erro em install.packages(chemometrics) : > | > objeto 'chemometrics' não encontrado > | > > | > Could anyone give any help? > | > > | > Thanks in advance, > | > Jose > | > > | > _______________________________________________ > | > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > | > [email protected] > | > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > | > > | > | > | > | > | _______________________________________________ > | R-SIG-Debian mailing list > | [email protected] > | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
