[Rd] Varying results of package checks due to random seed

2014-03-22 Thread Radford Neal
> From: Philippe GROSJEAN > > ... for latest CRAN version, we have successfully installed 4999 > packages among the 5321 CRAN package on our platform. ... It is > strange that a large portion of R CMD check errors on CRAN occur and > disappear *without any version update* of a package or any of it

Re: [Rd] Docker versus Vagrant for reproducability - was: The case for freezing CRAN

2014-03-22 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 22 March 2014 at 13:10, Nathaniel Smith wrote: | You might find the program 'xpra' useful. It's like screen, but for x11 | programs. There are also NXserver/NXclien/FreeNX which keep 'x11 / xdm sessions' and can resume / reconnect when the client dies. I find x2go quite useful at work. Dirk

Re: [Rd] Docker versus Vagrant for reproducability - was: The case for freezing CRAN

2014-03-22 Thread Kirill Müller
On 03/22/2014 02:10 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: On 22 Mar 2014 12:38, "Philippe GROSJEAN" wrote: On 21 Mar 2014, at 20:21, Gábor Csárdi wrote: In my opinion it is somewhat cumbersome to use this for everyday work, although good virtualization software definitely helps. Gabor Additional i

Re: [Rd] Docker versus Vagrant for reproducability - was: The case for freezing CRAN

2014-03-22 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On 22 Mar 2014 12:38, "Philippe GROSJEAN" wrote: > > On 21 Mar 2014, at 20:21, Gábor Csárdi wrote: > > In my opinion it is somewhat cumbersome to use this for everyday work, > > although good virtualization software definitely helps. > > > > Gabor > > > Additional info: you access R into the VM

Re: [Rd] Docker versus Vagrant for reproducability - was: The case for freezing CRAN

2014-03-22 Thread Philippe GROSJEAN
On 21 Mar 2014, at 20:21, Gábor Csárdi wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> Gábor Csárdi writes: >> >>> You might want to look at packer as well, which can build virtual >> machines >>> from an ISO, without any user intaraction. I successfully used it to >> bui