On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 08:16:29AM +0100, Johannes Ranke wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 7. November 2013, 23:46:47 schrieb Kirill Müller: > > On 11/07/2013 11:35 PM, Johannes Ranke wrote: > > > Talking about silly, I just read up a bit on what travis and CI are. If > > > installing R 2.15 with recommended packages from the CRAN Ubuntu repos > > > is so difficult, I do not see the point in using that as a platform for > > > testing R packages, or am I missing something here? > > > > > > Johannes > > > > https://github.com/craigcitro/r-travis is a recent effort to integrate R > > with Travis. There are some obstacles to overcome, but it works quite > > nicely already. It's free, it supports Ubuntu and OS X, and it > > integrates with GitHub like a charm. May sound silly, but that's reason > > enough for me. > > Ah, you misunderstood - I meant I was silly because I did not know what > Travis > and a CI platform are and had to read up. I think r-travis is an interesting > project indeed. Of course there is e.g. r-forge, but their build system has > some lack from time to time, they only test on Linux and Windows, and it does > not integrate with github. I have to say I am wondering if travis-ci.org > would > be able to handle all the R packages on github though... > > > Do you know a CI platform where testing R packages would work "out of > > the box"? Or perhaps a better suggestion on installing R + recommended? > > Well, is Debian stable supported by travis? This would be a quick and easily > automated way to get R 2.15 + recommended on Linux, without the need to set > up > you own repository.
Oops, I should say oldstable, time is flying, wheezy has been released a while ago... However, squeeze will still be around for a while. > Johannes > > > > > > > -Kirill > > > -- > PD Dr. Johannes Ranke > Kronacher Str. 8 > 79639 Grenzach-Wyhlen > http://chem.uft.uni-bremen.de/ranke > > _______________________________________________ > 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
