[R-sig-Debian] tangential from "tkrplot does not install"

[John C Nash]

>From my own experiences I can understand how the confusion on how to install comes about.
Two thoughts arise from this:

1) A couple of years ago I wondered out loud if there was a way to write a
my.install.packages() to first check if there is a debian packaging and do a

  system(sudo apt-get ...)

else the regular install.packages(). At that time I believe the issue was detecting the
debian packages, but memory may be faulty.

2) If there are tutorials around on how to do the debian packaging for r packages and
contribute to the repository. I'd be willing to do some packaging e.g., of my own and
related optimization packages.

Do either of these have reasonable possibilities of being realizable, or am I dreaming in
vivid colours?

JN


On 11/06/2011 01:12 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> On 6 November 2011 at 09:55, Stefan Th. Gries wrote:
> | > No you were missing the fact that we provide this precompiled for you.
> | All I can say is that it worked with a simple install.packages only
> | after I installed tcl8.5-dev so I am not sure what your last comment
> | is supposed to tell me but thx anyway!
> 
> Allow me to self-quote:
> 
>     From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
>     To: "Stefan Th. Gries" <stgries at gmail.com>
>     Cc: r-sig-debian at r-project.org
>     Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] tkrplot does not install
>     Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 10:32:11 -0600
>     
>     
>     You'd be better off first checking if the package exists, as it does here:
>     
>       sudo apt-get install r-cran-tkrplot
>     
>     which will get you tkrplot pre-built. Doesn't get much easier.
>     [...]
> 
> But if you didn't grok that that 90 minutes ago, I am probably still wasting
> a few bits in vain with this.  
> 
> Oh well , "l'espoir fait vivre."  Maybe it'll help someone else.
> 
> Dirk
>