[R-sig-Debian] Backport of R 2.9.0 to lenny

[Prasenjit Kapat]

Hi,

I am Ccing the rkward-users.

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:23 AM, A Griera <griera at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I have installed packages from:
>
> deb lenny http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian-Crane /

[updated]
> Sorry: My source is:
>
> deb http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian lenny-cran/

>
> But it does not work. When you start RKward, I get the error "R backend requests information. Selection:" and shows a white box without any opcción to select.
>
> Any suggestions? I am very interested in the use of RKWard with lenny backport.


rkward needs to be recompiled for R 2.9, also the fix for Rdevices.h
has to be made. Can you compile it from source? If so, kindly find a
recent (test) version for KDE3 (assuming you are running KDE3) here:

http://rkward.sourceforge.net/temp/rkward-0.4.9b-test1.tar.gz

For this you'll need r-base-dev, kdelibs4-dev, automake1.9, and
autotools-dev. Then the usual steps of ./configure, make, make
install. You may need to use --with-r-home=/path/to/R/home with
configure, if the backports' installation is not at the usual
location.

I would suggest using the rkward-users list for further discussion on
this instead of r-sig-debian.

Johannes is also part of the rkward list, so I guess he is aware of
the recent thread on this issue. He might just be able to provide a
deb file for this source :)


> Thank you very much for supporting the backports for lenny

For lenny backports, depending on whether, KDE4 or KDE3 is being
targeted, may be two versions of rkward are needed - rkward (0.4.9x)
and rkward0.5.

> Regards. GRiera.
>
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:27:52 +0200
> Johannes Ranke <jranke at uni-bremen.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Frankly, I don't. If you try this, I would be interested to know. It
>> should be easy to go back to R from lenny, in case you encounter
>> problems. So it appears you have an interest in the rkward backport for
>> lenny-cran?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Johannes
>>
>> * A Griera <griera at gmail.com> [090424 20:40]:
>> > Hello:
>> >
>> >
>> > Thank you very much for the work.
>> >
>> > Do you know if this version of R is compatible with RKWArd for lenny? Regards. GRiera.
>> >
>> > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:21:37 +0200
>> > Johannes Ranke <jranke at uni-bremen.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Dear all,
>> > >
>> > > I am happy to announce the availability of the current R version to
>> > > Debian lenny (stable) and etch (oldstable) on CRAN.
>> > >
>> > > I am happy to announce Piet Plomb who has taken responsibility for the
>> > > amd64 packages for lenny this time.
>> > >
>> > > This time around, we have not done rpy and rkward. It would be
>> > > interesting to know if there is any interest in these backports, as I
>> > > personally don't use them.
>> > >
>> > > For details, please refer to the Debian README on CRAN, accessible via
>> > > the links "R Binaries", "Linux".
>> > >
>> > > Kind regards,
>> > >
>> > > Johannes Ranke
>> > >
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Prasenjit