[ESS] RE: [R] Ess packages for Suse-9.2 available ?

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "PaulEJ" == Paul Johnson <pauljohn at ku.edu>
>>>>>     on Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:11:50 -0600 writes:

    PaulEJ> Yes, I still have been making RPMS and I post them in 
    PaulEJ> http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/software.

    PaulEJ> The one I'm using in Fedora Core 3 seems completely fine:

    PaulEJ> http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/software/favoriteEmacsFiles/emacs-ess-5.2.3-4.PJ.noarch.rpm

which is also not current version of ESS, 5.2.4.
Yesterday, I had mentioned Tom Moertel's site and had later even
put a link to it on  http://ESS.r-project.org/ .
IIRC, I had learned that his RPMs were somewhat more standard
conforming...  Can you communicate with each other about this?

We (ESS core) would really be glad to leave these matters to
other people {like for "Debian" where Camm McGuire has been the
maintainer of the ESS package for quite a while -- thank you, Camm!}

    PaulEJ> I do not know if they are directly installable in
    PaulEJ> SUSE because SUSE changes directory locations in
    PaulEJ> some programs. But it should be very easy for a SUSE
    PaulEJ> user who knows how to build RPMS to take my SRPM
    PaulEJ> file, fiddle the SPEC to make the directories
    PaulEJ> correct, and then rebuild.

We have such a user, namely the original poster, Thomas
Schönhoff with whom I've been exchanging e-mails.

So there will shortly be RPMs available for Suse, maybe even the
first RPMs for the current version of ESS .. unless you beat it,
Tom or Paul!

    PaulEJ> I am committed to keep providing these rpms because I've prevailed on 
    PaulEJ> several students to learn to use Linux and Emacs and R, and can't 
    PaulEJ> abandon them. Yet.

    PaulEJ> pj

    PaulEJ> Liaw, Andy wrote:
    >> [Re-directing to ESS-help]
    >> 
    >> I seem to recall that Paul Johnson made an RPM for RedHat (or was it
    >> Fedora?)...  Don't know how compatible that is on SUSE.  (I just install
    >> from source, which is as easy as Tony stated.)
    >> 
    >> Andy
    >> 
    >> 
    >>> From: A.J. Rossini
    >>> 
    >>> Does SuSE have anything like Debian's "alien" for importing 
    >>> foreign packages?  
    >>> 
    >>> If so, then you might use the Debian packages.  
    >>> 
    >>> Otherwise, it isn't too hard to unpack in your home directory, and add
    >>> the appropriate  " (load-file ...)" statement to your .emacs /
    >>> .xemacs/init.el
    >>> 
    >>> best,
    >>> -tony
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:49:04 +0100, Thomas Schönhoff 
    >>> <tom_hoary at web.de> wrote:
    >>> 
    >>>> Hi,
    >>>> 
    >>>> I've just managed to install R on Suse-9.2. Unfortunately 
    >>> 
    >>> there seem to
    >>> 
    >>>> be no Ess packages in Suse distri available. Doesn't seem 
    >>> 
    >>> like that Suse
    >>> 
    >>>> is ever to integrate these packages (since 2000)!?
    >>>> Are there any precompiled binaries around? So far I haven't 
    >>> 
    >>> been lucky
    >>> 
    >>>> to find any of them on rpmfind and similar sites.
    >>>> Maybe someone has already Ess binary for Suse-9.2 and is willing to
    >>>> share this one!? Otherwise I had to go through the hassle 
    >>> 
    >>> of building an
    >>> 
    >>>> rpm packages, which would be a real challenge to do for me.
    >>>> 
    >>>> sincerely
    >>>> 
    >>>> Thomas
    >>>> 
    >>>> ______________________________________________
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    >>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide! 
    >>> 
    >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> -- 
    >>> best,
    >>> 
    >>> -tony
    >>> 
    >>> "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from 
    >>> which we can easily
    >>> roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
    >>> 
    >>> A.J. Rossini
    >>> blindglobe at gmail.com
    >>> 

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