[R-sig-Debian] Re : Howto compile chemometrics package from source

[denis brion]

Dear Jose Brasil
D. Bates already gave you a response on how to install from sources; however, as chemometrics depends (at least on som, mvtnorm, mclust, pls, robustbase, e1071, pcaPP, pls, lars) on other packages, you should have them already installed, either
 binary or 
from sources before trying to install chemometrics (else, "R CMD INSTALL" will complain and give the list of what is missing):
R CMD INSTALL e1071_1.5-24.tar.gz
R CMD INSTALL lars_0.9-7.tar.gz (
then, pcaPP_1.8-2.tar.gz, som_0.3.5.tar.gz, etc..)

The main drawback of this way of installing from sources is that you must manage by yourself dependencies, and upgrade by yourself, even for complicated packages....

BTW : you might have little isues if you install packages in /usr/lib/R, as you might mess the packages you had compiled with the packages your package manager automatically manages...
 Adding "export R_LIBS=/usr/local/lib/R/library" (or any name of a directory you can write on)
before installing from source and before invoking the libraries might be useful.

Have nice days
D.Brion


--- En date de : Lun 27.9.10, Jose Brasil <c2o.pro.br at gmail.com> a écrit :

> De: Jose Brasil <c2o.pro.br at gmail.com>
> Objet: [R-sig-Debian] Howto compile chemometrics package from source
> À: r-sig-debian at r-project.org
> Date: Lundi 27 septembre 2010, 21h30
> Dear friends,
> 
> I'm confused about how to install packages from source.
> 
> I just updated R in Lenny from http://cran.fiocruz.br/bin/linux/debian/
> 
> I included in sources.list:
> 
> deb http://cran.fiocruz.br/bin/linux/debian
> lenny-cran/
> deb-src  http://cran.fiocruz.br/bin/linux/debian lenny-cran/
> 
> Then:
> apt-get update
> apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
> 
> Then I downloaded the package chemometrics_0.8.tar.gz 
> from
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/chemometrics_0.8.tar.gz
> 
> After untar I copied the dir chemometrics to
> /usr/lib/R/library and 
> tried install.package(chemometrics) from R prompt (as
> root):
> 
> install.packages(chemometrics)
> Erro em install.packages(chemometrics) : 
>   objeto 'chemometrics' não encontrado
> 
> Could anyone give any help?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Jose
> 
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