[R] sprng 2.0 header file for Rmpi

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is really an R-devel topic. But,

- Rmpi only suggests rsprng, and you are unlikely to need it.

- sprng2.0b.tar.gz builds from the sources without problem on Fedora 
12, and then rsprng installs. See 
http://sprng.fsu.edu/Version2.0/quick-start.html .

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Patrick Connolly wrote:

> When I try to install Rmpi, it has a dependency rsprng which, as its
> description says: Provides interface to SPRNG 2.0 APIs
>
> I installed it on Mepis by installing the appropriate debs with
> minimal drama.  In the rpm world of Fedora, no such luxury.
>
> Installing rsprng fails because:
>
> checking sprng.h usability... no
> checking sprng.h presence... no
> checking for sprng.h... no
> Cannot find sprng 2.0 header file.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rsprng’
>
>
> So, in my hunt for such, I went here:  http://sprng.cs.fsu.edu/
>
> The newest version is Version 4 which doesn't supply any sprng 2.0, so
> I tried Version 2, but it looks as though it's not been updated for 10
> years and the instructions don't quite fit the names of the files.
> For whatever reason, make fails but the instructions for dealing with
> such don't match the file names so I couldn't work out what needed
> changing.
>
> Is there somewhere else I should be looking for an sprng 2.0 header
> file?
>
>               _
> platform       i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch           i686
> os             linux-gnu
> system         i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major          2
> minor          9.1
> year           2009
> month          06
> day            26
> svn rev        48839
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26)
>
> I've also tried R-2.10.1 with similar failure.
>
> TIA
>
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