[R-sig-hpc] gputools for Windows

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 13 September 2012 at 14:25, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> | R runs under CygWin now, so perhaps it could be done that way.
>
> I would hasten to add that according to R Core, there is precisely one way to
> use R on Windows: using MinGW.

Yes, I know ... it shocked me when I saw R in CygWin myself. But that
means "someone" is "supporting" it. ;-)

[snip]

> So in short, I'd stick to Linux if you want to work with GPUs from R.

And the window seems to be closing on non-Ubuntu versions of Linux for
a variety of purposes. I recently had to make my tools "portable" -
i.e., find all the dependencies in openSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu and Mageia
repositories. It ain't pretty.

It seems at first glance it would be easy to automate, but once I
started looking into what's required to package some "simple" audio
software for Fedora, I was shocked at how many different things have
different names and different places between Ubuntu and Fedora. As far
as I can tell, only Fedora (and maybe RHEL) and Ubuntu/Debian have
*any* of the R library packages in their repositories.


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