[R-sig-Debian] Does rattle depend on testing's ggobi?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Robert,

Mixing Debian stable and CRAN can be delicate at times.

On 3 September 2008 at 16:25, Robert King wrote:
| Hello All,
| 
| I'm trying to install rattle from source on a AMD64 machine running etch.   I 

Let's review what this implies -- you are telling your system that you want
"stable" software, ie no changes. This does imply "older versions".  So
Debian will give you things like ggobi, just not the current version.

| have two packages installed from the etch backport 
| (r-cran-rodbc and r-cran-rsprng) but all the rest installed from source.  I'm 
| trying to install rattle, but 
| 
| install.packages("rattle", dependencies=TRUE)
| 
| Tries to install rggobi, which complains about the version of libggobi.  Does 
| this mean that there isn't a way I can install rattle on etch?
| 
| * Installing *source* package 'rggobi' ...
| checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
| checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
| checking for GGOBI... configure: error: Package requirements (ggobi >= 2.1.6) 
| were not met:
| 
| Requested 'ggobi >= 2.1.6' but version of libggobi is 2.1.4

One possible way out of this via the package system would be to

    $ sudo apt-get install r-cran-rggobi ggobi

However, this may or may not be a version current enough for rattle. We'd
have to look at that.

Otherwise, as Graham suggested, you can go 'all out to CRAN' but that somehow
subverts the spirit of keeping the machine "stable" and at fixed versions.

Hope this helps,  Dirk

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