[sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-28 Thread ancienthart
The ticket is open at #11266 Joal Heagney -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL:

[sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-27 Thread ancienthart
I've just joined sage-trac-account, requested an account and will post a new ticket once I have approval. As for trellis/lattice packages, this highlights what could be a big problem with R, as there are literally thousands of different packages, a good few that create plots. If we create a

[sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-27 Thread kcrisman
On Apr 27, 5:29 am, ancienthart joalheag...@gmail.com wrote: I've just joined sage-trac-account, requested an account and will post a new ticket once I have approval. As for trellis/lattice packages, this highlights what could be a big problem with R, as there are literally thousands of

[sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-25 Thread kcrisman
From Dave: I've not been following this, but note that there are virtual X displays which appear to accept graphics, but in fact throw it to /dev/null. Xvfb is one I know of - there may be others. Yes, the R Devel list mentioned this as well, but I don't think we can assume this is on most

[sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-25 Thread ancienthart
True, but I'd like something a little more ... pythonic. I was thinking of a wrapper that acts like the following: graph = Rgraphic(arguments passed to R.Cairo) graph.boxplot(arguments) graph.histogram(arguments) graph.etc.. show(graph) All method calls that aren't defined in the Rgraphic

[sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-25 Thread kcrisman
On Apr 25, 9:10 pm, ancienthart joalheag...@gmail.com wrote: True, but I'd like something a little more ... pythonic. Ah, yes. I would highly recommend opening a new ticket - perhaps under 'interfaces' - with some of these ideas. Be sure to include a link to #8868 and #11249, and links from

Re: [sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 04/23/11 04:41 PM, kcrisman wrote: This is a little OT, but just for reference, the R devels have made it clear that without an X and display actually present, Cairo is the only way to go to get this to work. With your setup, you presumably have a display in your VM, so your solution makes

[sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-24 Thread ancienthart
kcrisman? :P I'm not actually sure if the r.png( ) in the system I have set up uses the system png libraries or cairo, but having the tcl/tk R package installer is handy. What I'd like to see in sage is a rewrite of the r.png( ) functionality Currently, to include a R graphic object in the

[sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-23 Thread kcrisman
On Apr 22, 8:09 am, ancienthart joalheag...@gmail.com wrote: These two posts explain what I do. https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/s1hI8JnHY6k/discussionhttps://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-release/ilYqmm2QyHc/discussion It's a bit unclear, but basically I install jpeg-dev and

[sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-22 Thread kuhn
I tried to install Ubuntu following the links http://wiki.sagemath.org/WubiGuide http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/windows-installer The installation failed, I found this in the log DEBUG Distro: wrong version: 10.04.2 != 10.04.1 Should I try with Debian instead? Thanks!!! On Apr 22,

[sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-22 Thread ancienthart
These two posts explain what I do. https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/s1hI8JnHY6k/discussion https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-release/ilYqmm2QyHc/discussion It's a bit unclear, but basically I install jpeg-dev and png-dev libraries and everything else I can think of to cover my

[sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-22 Thread Kelvin Li
I tried to install Ubuntu following the links http://wiki.sagemath.org/WubiGuide http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/windows-installer The installation failed, I found this in the log DEBUG Distro: wrong version: 10.04.2 != 10.04.1 Should I try with Debian instead? Thanks!!! I

[sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-22 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thursday, April 21, 2011 6:33:43 PM UTC+2, kuhn wrote: What should be the safest way against these type of problems? I don't know if it is safe in your definition, but to throw another elephant into the room: http://andlinux.org/ This is a linux kernel running as a windows application +

[sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-21 Thread Volker Braun
On Thursday, April 21, 2011 6:33:43 PM UTC+2, kuhn wrote: What should be the safest way against these type of problems? Install a linux distribution designed for long-term stability like RHEL/Scientific Linux or Debian. -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com

[sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-21 Thread Kelvin Li
My oracle VM stopped working a while ago, the wmware stopped today with some bug widely discussed on the web due to windows 7 updates, and the wubi failed to install at all. What should be the safest way against these type of problems? In my personal experience, I have been using

[sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-21 Thread ancienthart
Kelvin's suggestion is the easiest. This is how I run sage on my windows work machine, inside virtualbox on ubuntu. The vmware image provided on the website lacks R png support, so I like to roll my own. Joal Heagney -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To

[sage-support] Re: Are there people using today any of the three recommended solutions for Windows on the sage site?

2011-04-21 Thread Jason Grout
On 4/21/11 11:16 PM, ancienthart wrote: Kelvin's suggestion is the easiest. This is how I run sage on my windows work machine, inside virtualbox on ubuntu. The vmware image provided on the website lacks R png support, so I like to roll my own. We just investigated this issue, and it appears