On 28 September 2010 at 15:45, denis brion wrote: | 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
It most certainly is, but check the name of this list every once in a while. This is not r-help, or r-sig-linux, or r-sig-whateverdenislikes The list is for Debian/Ubuntu users. Help is of course appreciated, but so is fact checking. Dirk | 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 | > | | | -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
