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

[Josh Harmsen]

Hi All,

First off thanks to everyone for help on this, this is a great
community.  Currently R has been tied up on my Linux machine and I
don't think it will be free for a couple more days.  I'll let everyone
know if I can get this to work, so stay tuned!

Cheers,

Josh

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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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