[R-sig-Debian] rmpi backports?

[Johannes Ranke]

Dear all,

meanwhile I have tested the following procedure to get Rmpi to work on a 
multicore Debian squeeze box with a kernel from backports.org:

I installed the squeeze version of the package r-cran-rmpi. This does not load 
because of the missing namespace. But it pulls in all dependencies needed at 
runtime.

I then installed the build dependencies by apt-get build-dep.

Within R, I then used install.packages() to install Rmpi. This installed the 
package and it loaded fine.

Kind regards,

Johannes

Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2013, 18:06:35 schrieb 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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