On 22 April 2014 at 20:15, Sathish Kumar wrote:
| I need to install R packages in several nodes (10+) in AWS. I wont be able
| to open R shell in each and do install.packages("foo")You don't have to. I prefer the install.r wrapper (one version is part of littler) | This will be done using a configuration management tool like Puppet and | it'll be easier if i can do an apt-get installation of R packages | automatically. | | I found a list of R debian packages here: | http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/lucid/ | | But it does not contain all the packages that i need. | | Is there a way to convert any R package and it's internal dependencies to a | Debian package similar to the approach used in creating r-cran-*.deb? You may underestimate how how hard this is but it has been done a few times as cran2deb. The best current version is for Debian and at http://debian-r.debian.net Don reads this list (I think ...) and may chime in. Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
