[R-sig-Debian] how to convert source code in windows package for linux (ubuntu)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 11 October 2008 at 20:12, Edzer J. Pebesma wrote:
| something like
| 
| R CMD INSTALL RSAGA_version_x.y.tar.gz
| 
| possibly preceded with a "sudo", so that it becomes installed 
| system-wide. And then see if it works!

Yup, and if it doesn't, try to debug where maybe Windows-specific commands or
settings are used.  It should be easy to overcome this -- many R packages do.

Dirk

| --
| Edzer
| 
| Josh Harmsen wrote:
| > I've actually already had correspondence with the author, he thought
| > it was possible to do, but asked me to find out what would be needed
| > to get it in a Linux environment and I was going to get back to him.
| > SAGA actually compiles nicely in Linux (the gui and cmd) and I have
| > successfully done this, so that should not be the issue.
| >
| > Here is what we have:
| > R Source package for RSAGA (and author cced!)
| > Windows Binary for RSAGA (no use to us)
| > SAGA compiles for Ubuntu Hardy with no problems
| >
| > So with this, what are the necessary steps?
| >
| > Thanks,
| >
| > Josh
| >
| > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Edzer Pebesma
| > <edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de> wrote:
| >   
| >> The other option I would recommend is to contact the package author (Cc:),
| >> and ask what he thinks would be needed to port RSAGA to linux. I'm not sure
| >> about this, but I believe he or someone else once mentioned that SAGA (to
| >> which RSAGA interfaces) has a command line interface that is only available
| >> on the windows platform. If that is the case, SAGA would be the project to
| >> push first to get this running under linux.
| >> --
| >> Edzer
| >>
| >> Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >>     
| >>> On 10 October 2008 at 15:42, Josh Harmsen wrote:
| >>> | The package is RSAGA
| >>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RSAGA/index.html
| >>> | | CRAN does have the package source available, which is what I want to
| >>> | get to work in R on a Ubuntu Hardy 64bit.  If the process is trivial
| >>> | could you guide me through it or point me to a resource that explains
| >>> | it?
| >>>
| >>> Not knowing anything about the particular details of this package I'd
| >>> refer
| >>> you to what the package author clearly states in the DESCRIPTION info for
| >>> the
| >>> package that is available at the URL you provide that:
| >>>
| >>>        SystemRequirements:     Windows, SAGA (>=2.0.2)
| >>>
| >>> To make that even more plain, RSAGA depends
| >>>        a) on SAGA (do you have that on Ubuntu amd64 ?),  and
| >>>        b) on Windows.
| >>> You are, in other words, out of luck.
| >>> Look into virtualbox, a rather nice virtualization package included in
| >>> Ubuntu
| >>> in the 'open source edition' and look into installing a Windows session
| >>> inside your Ubuntu system. You can share folders etc pp.  Maybe that can
| >>> help
| >>> you.
| >>>
| >>> Dirk
| >>>
| >>>
| >>>       
| >> --
| >> Edzer Pebesma
| >> Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), University of Münster,
| >> Weseler Straße 253, 48151 Münster, Germany.  Phone: +49 251
| >> 8333081, Fax: +49 251 8339763  http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/
| >> http://www.springer.com/978-0-387-78170-9
| >>
| >>
| >>     
| 

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