Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
which was filed against the r-cran-cairodevice package:
#498527: Cairo should be default output device in R instead of X11 when
r-cran-cairodevice installed
It has been closed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Thanks for the bug report.
| This would probably requires cooperation with the base R packages...
| feel free to reassign to a more appropriate R package if this is the case.
... that is unlikely for contributed packages. A but like lower priorities
in Debian -- 'base R' just won't depend on contributed packaged. Sometimes
the contributed package morph into base R but that is R.
There is nothing I can do here for you. Part one of what you suggest may be
a local admin issue, part two is clearly something you'd need to argue with
the cairoDevice maintainers and on r-devel.
Maybe I should have been more explicit about what I had in mind. I
wasn't suggesting having base R depend on r-cran-cairodevice. The two
ways of doing this that I can see are:
1. If there's a directory of .r files that are read at startup by R,
like /etc/emacs/site-start.d for emacs, etc., then r-cran-cairodevice
could add a file in there that would change the default output device
from X11 to Cairo.
Having the equivalent of /etc/emacs/site-start.d for the use of Debian R
packages would require a change to the R core package, but it should be
doable since R is a general programming language. And this is something
that might be useful for other R Debian package after.
2. Another option is to simply have the Debian startup code for R (in
r-base-core, I guess) enable the Cairo output device if it sees that the
cairoDevice library is installed, otherwise use X11.
Both ways, core R doesn't depend on r-cran-cairodevice, but users that
install the package automatically get good-looking graphic output (like
people have by default with R on Mac at least).
Please reopen this bug report, at least to discuss a bit... that is
unless you find both suggestions completely atrocious.
Christian
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
