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

[denis brion]

Because:
I still fail to understand why keep posting on this as you
> obviously do not
> use Debian or Ubuntu.
> 
1) I obviously could help him (reminding /usr/local/xxx or any directory  should be writable  does not hurt, does it? Even if it has been done 7 years ago - docs change and are forgotten- )

2 )Some friends of mine use Debian derived or Windows  : I I find _a_ good reason to keep/use Debian, I am not of the sectary kind (any objections?)
...
3 ) I sincerely thought R was sect/distribution agnostic

4 ) I have a mind open enough to look for other distributions/ package managers (binary P.M.  should be easier - available recent doc, etc... -
 than compiling from source, should not they???)

5) talking about doc: GNU linux magazine dedicated a full _and interesting_  release to Debian package managing: that the bright side, not the "looking for  political correctness" à la McCarthy, , of Debian...


--- En date de : Mar 28.9.10, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> a écrit :

> De: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
> Objet: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Re : Howto compile chemometrics package from source
> À: "denis brion" <dbrion1 at yahoo.fr>
> Cc: 
> Date: Mardi 28 septembre 2010, 17h11
> 
> Denis,
> 
> I still fail to understand why keep posting on this as you
> obviously do not
> use Debian or Ubuntu.
> 
> On 28 September 2010 at 14:27, denis brion wrote:
> | 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)
> 
> Yes, that idea is *so good* that it has been the
> *implemented default* since
> 2003.  From the file /etc/R/Renviron:
> 
> # edd Apr 2003  Allow local install in /usr/local,
> also add a directory for
> #           
>    Debian packaged CRAN packages, and finally
> the default dir 
> # edd Jul 2007  Now use R_LIBS_SITE, not R_LIBS
> R_LIBS_SITE=${R_LIBS_SITE-'/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:/usr/lib/R/site-library:/usr/lib/R/library'}
> 
> 
> Dirk
> 
> 
> | 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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