On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Steve Lianoglou <mailinglist.honey...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Aaron Mackey <amac...@virginia.edu> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Cook, Malcolm <m...@stowers.org> wrote: >> >>> * where do the dragons lurk >>> >> >> webs of interconnected dynamically loaded libraries, identical versions of >> R compiled with different BLAS/LAPACK options, etc. Go with the VM if you >> really, truly, want this level of exact reproducibility. > > Sounds like the best bet -- maybe tools like vagrant might be useful here: > > http://www.vagrantup.com > > ... or maybe they're overkill? > > Haven't really checked it out myself too much, my impression is that > these tools (vagrant, chef, puppet) are built to handle such cases. > > I'd imagine you'd probably need a location where you can grab the > precise (versioned) packages for the things you are specifying, but
Right...and this is a bit tricky, because we don't keep old versions around in our BioC software repositories. They are available through Subversion but with the sometimes additional overhead of setting up build-time dependencies. Dan > ... > > -steve > > -- > Steve Lianoglou > Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology > | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center > | Weill Medical College of Cornell University > Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
