Hi Ross, as the maintainer of the Debian squeeze debs on CRAN, I have to admit that I have no clue about MPI.
But the first thing I would try is to get the build dependencies of the Debian squeeze Rmpi package apt-get build-dep r-cran-rmpi and then try installing Rmpi from within R as Dirk suggested. Johannes Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2013, 02:49:01 schrieb Ross Boylan: > On 2/14/2013 1:59 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 14 February 2013 at 13:42, Ross Boylan wrote: > > | We have a cluster running squeeze (amd64) that uses CRAN (squeeze-cran > > | directory) to get more recent versions of R packages. > > | > > | Unfortunately, many cluster-related packages, including rmpi and rsprng > > | are missing. The basic squeeze version of rmpi won't load because it > > | doesn't have a namespace. > > | > > | Any suggestions about how to deal with this? > > > > Install into /usr/local, that is what it is for: > > > > > > edd@max:~$ ls -1 /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ | wc -l > > 256 > > edd@max:~$ > > > > Dirk > > Is rebuilding the debian package for testing or sid from source likely > to work? I'm thinking that with all the nodes to update it might be > easier to go with a deb. > > If we do that, is there anywhere, e.g., backports or cran, we could make > it available for others? > > Ross > > _______________________________________________ > 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
