R devel - Dec 2002 - rsprng doesn't install on Debian (woody) (PR#2378)

Full_Name: Emmanuel Charpentier
Version: 1.6.1
OS: Linux 2.4.20 / Debian Woody
Submission from: (NULL) (80.15.78.96)


rsprng depends on libraries available in the "genesis" package.
However, even
when Genesis is installed, the installation of the source package fails for not
finding rsprng.h. It turns out that Debian installs it in a subdirectoru of
/usr/include, and that the rsprng packages assumes that it is located in
/usr/include.

I have but a suggestion : allow the rsprng installation to look in /usr/include
subdirectories.

Sincerely,

                           Emmanuel Charpentier

>>>>> "charpent" == charpent 
<charpent@bacbuc.dyndns.org> writes:
    charpent> Full_Name: Emmanuel Charpentier
    charpent> Version: 1.6.1
    charpent> OS: Linux 2.4.20 / Debian Woody
    charpent> Submission from: (NULL) (80.15.78.96)


    charpent> rsprng depends on libraries available in the
"genesis" package. However, even
    charpent> when Genesis is installed, the installation of the source
package fails for not
    charpent> finding rsprng.h. It turns out that Debian installs it in a
subdirectoru of
    charpent> /usr/include, and that the rsprng packages assumes that it is
located in
    charpent> /usr/include.

    charpent> I have but a suggestion : allow the rsprng installation to look
in /usr/include
    charpent> subdirectories.

Executive Summary:  

The Debian genesis package contains SPRNG v1.0.  The R RSPRNG package
is really set up to use SPRNG v2.0.  There are extremely crude RPM/DEB
packages of v2.0 for Intel Linux at 

     http://software.biostat.washington.edu/~rossini/cluster_computing/

(I should stress again, they are fairly crude; but they work on our
machines, and apparently, on some other people's machines as well).

best,
-tony

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