Hi Paul, On 26 November 2011 at 22:10, Paul Menzel wrote: | Dear Dirk, | | | Am Samstag, den 26.11.2011, 12:42 -0600 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: | > On 26 November 2011 at 18:57, Paul Menzel wrote: | > | Package: littler | > | Version: 0.1.5-1 | > | Severity: normal | > | | > | Dear Debian folks, | > | > There is a single maintainer for the littler package, and his name is Dirk. | | I am sorry. I used that term because all Debian developers and users | should try to fix bugs. And sometimes the maintainers are not as devoted | as you are.
What makes you think all developers would read a bug report against one particular package? | > | since the package rbenchmark is not packaged in Debian I installed it using `install.packages()`. Then it was installed in my home directory I believe. | > | > Your problem. Always check what .libPaths() says: | > | > edd@max:~$ r -e 'print(.libPaths())' | > [1] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" "/usr/lib/R/site-library" | > [3] "/usr/lib/R/library" | > edd@max:~$ | | It says the same on my system. | | > So on my system an installation __done with littler__ goes to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library | | Well, since I have not changed anything by default using | `install.packages()` it goes into `~/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.14/`. You shouldn't have to change anything. Apart maybe from making sure you (and not jyst root) can write into /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ This is set from /etc/R/Renviron | > In fact littler comes with two short example scripts 'install.r' and | > 'update.r' I use all the time. Eg (for a not-required re-installation:) | > | > edd@max:~$ ~/bin/install.r rbenchmark | > trying URL 'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/rbenchmark_0.3.tar.gz' | > Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3504 bytes | > opened URL | > ================================================== | > downloaded 3504 bytes | > | > * installing *source* package ‘rbenchmark’ ... | > ** R | > ** preparing package for lazy loading | > ** help | > *** installing help indices | > ** building package indices ... | > ** testing if installed package can be loaded | > | > * DONE (rbenchmark) | > | > The downloaded packages are in | > ‘/tmp/downloaded_packages’ | > edd@max:~$ r -lrbenchmark -e 'res <- benchmark(function() {}); print(res)' | > test replications elapsed relative user.self sys.self user.child | > 1 function() { 100 0.001 1 0 0 0 | > sys.child | > 1 0 | > edd@max:~$ | | I did not know about these scripts and that they should be used for | installing packages. See #648981 [3]. "Should be used" is too strong. I wrote them for my use as I find them convenient. | > | Executing `R` and then `library(rbenchmark)` works. | > | | > | Now I wanted to try `fibonacci.r` from the examples of the Rcpp package (`r-cran-rcpp` [2]). | > | | > | $ cp /usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/examples/Misc/fibonacci.r /tmp/ | > | $ r fibonacci.r # includes `library(rbenchmark)` | > | | > | This aborts with an error that the package `rbenchmark` cannot be found. | > | | > | $ LANG=C r fibonacci.r | > | Loading required package: inline | > | Loading required package: methods | > | Loading required package: compiler | > | Error in library(rbenchmark) : there is no package called 'rbenchmark' | > | Execution halted | > | | > | Is littler supposed to work in such a setup? | > | > Well, yes. I use littler for all the blog posts you refer to. | > | > Read help(Startup) and figure out your paths. | > | > Not a bug. Next time, just ask on r-sig-debian, please. | | Is there a way to get that working by default? Should the path `~/R/` | which gets used by default for installing packages be added somewhere? | Or a new item to the FAQ in `README.gz`? Please do read 'help(Startup)' and how you can influence .ldPaths() -- and if you prefer to install in ~/R you have to figure out how to make sure littler looks there too. Ciao, Dirk | > Mit besten Gruessen, Dirk | | Groetjes, beste, | | Paul | | | > | [1] http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2011/09/08/ | > | [2] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=r-cran-rcpp | [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648981 | xapplication/pgp-signature [Click mouse-2 to save to a file] -- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
