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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 4 May 2008 at 23:07, Brian Lunergan wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > 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.

See the r-devel list; looks like Brian Ripley just added a new field to
DESCRIPTION so that packages can declare themselves to available on a certain
platform. 

Hth, Dirk

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