Dear all, meanwhile I have tested the following procedure to get Rmpi to work on a multicore Debian squeeze box with a kernel from backports.org:
I installed the squeeze version of the package r-cran-rmpi. This does not load because of the missing namespace. But it pulls in all dependencies needed at runtime. I then installed the build dependencies by apt-get build-dep. Within R, I then used install.packages() to install Rmpi. This installed the package and it loaded fine. Kind regards, Johannes Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2013, 18:06:35 schrieb Johannes Ranke: > 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 _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
