[R-sig-Debian] rmpi backports?

[Johannes Ranke]

Hi Ross,

as the maintainer of the Debian squeeze debs on CRAN, I have to admit that I 
have no clue about MPI.

But the first thing I would try is to get the build dependencies of the Debian 
squeeze Rmpi package

apt-get build-dep r-cran-rmpi

and then try installing Rmpi from within R as Dirk suggested.

Johannes

Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2013, 02:49:01 schrieb Ross Boylan:
> On 2/14/2013 1:59 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > On 14 February 2013 at 13:42, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > | We have a cluster running squeeze (amd64) that uses CRAN (squeeze-cran
> > | directory) to get more recent versions of R packages.
> > | 
> > | Unfortunately, many cluster-related packages, including rmpi and rsprng
> > | are missing.  The basic squeeze version of rmpi won't load because it
> > | doesn't have a namespace.
> > | 
> > | Any suggestions about how to deal with this?
> > 
> > Install into /usr/local, that is what it is for:
> > 
> > 
> > edd at max:~$ ls -1 /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ | wc -l
> > 256
> > edd at max:~$
> > 
> > Dirk
> 
> Is rebuilding the debian package for testing or sid from source likely
> to work?  I'm thinking that with all the nodes to update it might be
> easier to go with a deb.
> 
> If we do that, is there anywhere, e.g., backports or cran, we could make
> it available for others?
> 
> Ross
> 
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