On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
reassign 510251 postgresql-8.3-plr
thanks
Andreas,
First off, thanks for maintaining pl-r. I wasn't aware that it has landed in
your lap. I was aware that the Pg maintainers didn't really want it (for lack
of R expertise) but I had no spare capacity to take it on myself.
On 23 January 2009 at 14:10, Andreas Tille wrote:
| On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Andreas Tille wrote:
|
| > You can work around this problem for your local installation by just
| > copying src/include/Rdevices.h into the plr source directory. The
| > you can build the package for the moment.
|
| I have to revert this.
Yes, that was plain wrong. R (upstream) changed their interface and
tightened this. It also affected things I maintain such as the RPy package.
So the error is plainly with the client package. It is not an R issue
inasmuch as that these interface were never public (yet pl/R is a well-known
example even used in the 'R Extensions' manual about embedding).
| I learned that Rgraphics.h is lacking as well
| and once you include these both in the plr source tree and try to
| build against R 2.8 you get something like:
Did you talk Joe Conway about this? Joe as upstream author has always been
very responsive clueful when I contacted him about pl/R (which I had played
with over the years).
Now the final question for Faheem: Pl/R has existed in Debian for years. Why
did you think you needed to rebuild it for etch? Were you lacking a
particular combination of versions of R and/or Pg on etch ?
Hi Dirk, Andreas, Joe,
Thanks for picking up the ball on this one. Dirk, in answer to your
specific question, I needed to have pl/r installed on a particular
machine which I do not administer. This machine is running etch, and also
your backport of R 2.8.
ii r-base 2.8.1-1~etchcran.0
GNU R statistical computation and graphics s
ii r-base-core 2.8.1-1~etchcran.0
GNU R core of statistical computation and gr
So, you see why I needed to build pl/r against etch and that particular
version of R.
I'm sure we can sort all this out.
I hope so too. Writing to the pl/r mailing list was on my todo list (in
fact I would probably have got to it in the next few days if I had not
heard from Andreas), but since Joe is now in the loop, it is no longer
necessary. I'm just surprised this was not a known issue already.
Regards, Faheem.
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