[BioC] Rgraphviz on CRAN ??

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

These days a Windows user needs to install Graphviz independently  
before they can use Rgraphviz. This is not how it used to be, but it  
means that these days a user has to take additional non-R steps to get  
Rgraphviz to work.

Kasper

On Jul 5, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Søren Højsgaard wrote:

> If Rgraphviz can not be on CRAN for all standard platforms then I  
> would say that dual hosting makes only little sense.
>
> But - it is a pitty that the Windows binary does not pass the checks  
> (on windows) because if Rgraphviz was on CRAN then things would be  
> easier (in terms of building packages which depend on that package).
>
> Cheers
> Søren
>
> ________________________________
>
> Fra: Kurt Hornik [mailto:Kurt.Hornik at wu-wien.ac.at]
> Sendt: lø 05-07-2008 19:03
> Til: Robert Gentleman
> Cc: Søren Højsgaard; bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch; Kurt Hornik
> Emne: Re: [BioC] Rgraphviz on CRAN ??
>
>
>
>>>>>> Robert Gentleman writes:
>
>> Hi,
>
>>   It is there for me, perhaps the mirror you are using is not up to
>> date?  http://cran.fhcrc.org/web/packages/Rgraphviz/index.html
>
>> I have cc'd Kurt, as I believe he has a mechanism to pull it across.
>> Uwe seems not to be building windows binaries, and the path is
>> somewhat tortuous, but perhaps Kurt can be convinced to take ours.
>
>> And even so, there is no real difference between the CRAN and the
>> Bioconductor repositories, so I don't know why you would want not to
>> rely on it (unless you really don't want to use it - then you should
>> not use it), or even why you want it dual hosted.
>
> Seems Soren is looking for a Windows binary, which indeed is not there
> (see http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rgraphviz/index.html),  
> with
> explanation:
>
> Package
>  Rgraphviz
> is also hosted on BioC and does not pass the checks on CRAN.
> Please see its BioC version.
>
> To simplify matters, should we stop dual hosting?
>
> Best
> -k
>
>> Robert
>
>
>
>> Søren Højsgaard wrote:
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> About 3-4 months ago, Rgraphviz appeared on CRAN but it is not  
>>> there any longer. Does anyone know if it will appear on CRAN again  
>>> within a forseable future (or is it safer to modify packages so  
>>> that they do not require Rgraphviz)?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Søren
>>>
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