similar to: packages in cran2deb and Debian

What is the relation between the cran2deb repository, http://debian.cran.r-project.org/, and the debian repositories at CRAN, http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/? I've studied the pages and this list, but am unsure I've got it right. My understanding is that cran2deb had almost all packages, targets testing, and currently is only supported for i386. It appears the debian repo at

The cran2deb archives target testing. I just pulled a package from them onto a stable system; the library loaded but said > library(akima) Warning message: package 'akima' was built under R version 2.10.0 Are this and other packages likely to work correctly with different R's (2.7 in the case of stable)? How well are they likely to work with a backported R? The R version would

I have a package that can use rmpi, but works fine without it. None of the automatic test code invokes rmpi functionality. (One test file illustrates how to use it, but has quit() as its first command.) What's the best way to handle this? In particular, what is the appropriate form for upload to CRAN? When I omitted rmpi from the DESCRITPION file R CMD check gave <quote> * checking

I've tweaked Rmpi and want to have some variables that hold data in the package. One of the R files starts mpi.isend.obj <- vector("list", 500) #mpi.request.maxsize()) mpi.isend.inuse <- rep(FALSE, 500) #mpi.request.maxsize()) and then functions update those variables with <<-. When run:

Hi, I am curious what will happen to cran2deb: deb http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64 testing/ When Squeeze is released? I really hope this service will continue. It has been great being able to aptitude install R packages. Additionally are these packages signed and is there a key? Chris

Can anyone help me understand how I got 2 versions of the same library loaded, how to prevent it, and what the consequences are? Running under Debian GNU/Linux squeeze. lsof and /proc/xxx/map both show 2 copies of several libraries loaded: /home/ross/install/lib/libmpi.so.1.3.0 /home/ross/install/lib/libopen-pal.so.6.1.0 /home/ross/install/lib/libopen-rte.so.7.0.0

I'm invoking R from withing a shell script like this R --no-save --no-restore --gui=none > `hostname` 2>&1 <<BYE # various commands here BYE I would like to regain control from the invoking terminal at some point. I tried source(stdin()) but got a syntax error, presumably stdin is the little shell here snippet (the part between <<BYE and BYE). Is there some way to

Dear Michael, I was looking up the status of the cran2deb effort and notice that you now have a PPA where new packages are landing and being built for Ubuntu. It looks like this is still a work in progress, but is already a fantastic resource for me and I hope it is something that you can continue to operate. I'm now installing many of these packages but some things I need are missing.

Announcing cran2deb: 1700+ Debian packages from almost all of CRAN ------------------------------------------------------------------ Last Friday's presentation at UseR! 2009 was the first really public mention of 'cran2deb'. It provides Debian packages of all of CRAN. It started as Charles' project from last year's Google Summer of Code, was further extended by us over the

Hi, I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 amd64 with cran2deb packages (I know it's meant for Debian, it's worked fine for me for many months). Recently apt-get update has to started to complain: ... Hit http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Release Get:1 http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Packages [515kB] Fetched 1B in 3s (0B/s) W: Failed to fetch

R objects can disappear if they are garbage collected; can they move, i.e., change their location in memory? I don't see any indication this might happen in "Writing R Extensions" or "R Internals". But I'd like to be sure. Context: Rmpi serializes objects in raw vectors for transmission by mpi. Some send operations (isend) return before transmission is complete and

Has anybody tried to use Rmpi with the OpenMPI library instead of LAM/MPI? LAM appears to be somewhat hardcoded in the Rmpi setup. Before I start to experiment with changing this, has anybody else tried Rmpi with non-LAM MPI implementations? Dirk -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison

Rmpi is not currently available on CRAN, and I don't think it has been for a few months. It is available at http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/yu/Rmpi/ Does anyone know its current status? A few months ago I corresponded with the author, who noted some build problems (specifically on Debian) were the hang up, and seemed to be working on it. I wasn't able to get it to work then (on a

Dear all Recently I noticed that there are name clashes between the packages proposed in the Debian testing repos and cran2deb. For example, Synaptic proposes to upgrade from xtable 1.5-6-1cran1 (cran2deb, up-to-date CRAN version) to 1.5.5-1 (testing, older version). Is there anything that can be done about these clashes? Liviu -- Do you know how to read?

Dear All, I am running (X)Ubuntu 9.10 for the amd64 architecture on both my laptop e desktop. I came across the posts http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1336062 http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-debian at r-project.org/msg00892.html So it looks like that I will not be able to safely use cran2deb together with Ubuntu, but I simply would like to make sure that this is the way things

Yesterday I wanted to try rattle on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. I had (and still have) it running (though it complains on startup a bit -- I'll look into that later) on a different bootup on the same machine with 8.04 Hardy. I got an error that libglade cannot be found, and various attempts to get glade support failed. I removed and reinstalled R -- same problem. To avoid the issue of local setup

Thanks--I'll try this new version when I get back to working on this--hopefully soon. luke On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Hao Yu wrote: > Sorry. I have not been able to update Rmpi since the version > 0.4-4 on R site. However, I have been using and testing Rmpi > internally since 0.4-4. Now it is version 0.4-7. See the > attached package. It requires R 1.8.1 (no more serialize >

Hi All, just to check, is cran2deb available for Karmic Koala (ideally also for a amd_64)? Cheers, Fede -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com

Sorry if this has been answered somewhere else (didn't see it), but is cran2deb fully compatible with Ubuntu? Novice question: I use install.packages() within R. The pros of using sudo apt-get instead seem obvious, but are there any cons I should know about? Thanks -- Etienne Lalibert? ================================ School of Forestry University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800

Although this query was inspired by distributed random number generation, one of the questions (#2 below) is a single-machine issue. I call C++ code from R to generate simulated data. I'm doing this on a cluster, and use rmpi and rsprng. While rsprng randomizes R-level random numbers (e.g., from runif), it has no effect on the C code, which is completely SPRNG and MPI ignorant. Currently I