[R-sig-Debian] Filtering R views by platform was: One problem solved and a new one to consider...

[Brian Lunergan]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 4 May 2008 at 19:48, Brian Lunergan wrote:
> | Solved the original problem I wrote in about with a combination of r-cran 
> | downloads through Synaptic and downloads from one of the mirror sites. 
> | Things worked out well.
> | 
> | Using the ctv package I pulled in the contents of the Finance view. Not 
> | clear which one, but one of the packages called up RDCOMClient as an 
> | apparent dependency. Not showing up as an r-cran file or on any of the 
> | mirrors I've tried. Is this needed for R on Linux, or is it a leftover from 
> | a Windows edition of whatever package called it as a dependency? If it is 
> | useful to a Linux setup of R, the question is where can I find and 
> | download/install the silly thing?
> 
> Looks like that comes from RBloomberg. So it appears that you need to filter
> the output of ctv for the Finance taskview to exclude the packages not
> available on your architecture. So just remove RBloomberg and the desire to
> fetch RDCOMClient will vanish.  Both are Windows-only.
> 
> CCing Achim to see if that can, and if so should, be fixed on the ctv side of
> things. 
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up.
> 
> Dirk
> 

Interesting thought, but how would you accomplish this filtering by 
platform? Just took a quick skim of install.views() help and the only 
filtering possible at the moment appears to be whether you want just the 
core capabilities or the whole enchilada. No apparent provision for 
filtering by platform.

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Brian Lunergan
Nepean, Ontario
Canada