Re: [Rd] On implementing zero-overhead code reuse

2016-10-04 Thread elijah wright
Shower thoughts: Are you digging for something like what you'd use with a CI/CD pipeline? e.g. - building a workflow that pulls a tag from a couple of code repositories, checks them out into a workspace, installs prereqs, and then runs your code/tasks in a repeatable fashion? I'm not aware of a

Re: [Rd] Building R under Linux - library dependencies

2016-09-07 Thread elijah wright
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Paweł Piątkowski wrote: > > | Is there a way to overcome this problem? Precompiled versions of R can > be installed on various system configurations, so I guess that there should > be a way to compile it in a version-agnostic manner. > > > > Yes, for example by > >

Re: [Rd] how useful could be a fast and embedded database for the R community?

2014-12-24 Thread elijah wright
I believe in patches and working code. You're proposing to compete with the likes of sqlite and berkeley db -- not small competition, with excellent performance characteristics when used properly. You also used the 'b'illions word in reference to data sets - really? best, --e On Tue, Dec 23,

Re: [Rd] Who does develop the R core and libs, and how / where is it hosted?

2013-01-15 Thread elijah wright
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Hervé Pagès wrote: > and given R's modularity that is fortunately not very often the case. >> > > Modularity would be even better if more things *in core* were made > generics. For example why the stuff in parallel was not made generic? > (at least S3 generic)

Re: [Rd] Compilation failure on Solaris: any advice?

2012-12-06 Thread elijah wright
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > [Are more Solaris-esque build slaves needed? Someone give a shout > if so... > | > we can sponsor some infrastructure there.] > | > | as long we (R community at large "in principle", de facto, > | AFAIK, Prof Brian Ri

Re: [Rd] Compilation failure on Solaris: any advice?

2012-12-05 Thread elijah wright
Is that a build with "good old" Studio or a build with a recent GCC? I don't have any direct comments that would be helpful to you - but let me know if you need a place to do some test builds and try to figure it out. I can certainly help you with that. [Are more Solaris-esque build slaves neede

Re: [Rd] Provide both shlib and standard versions of R?

2006-01-15 Thread elijah wright
>> That is not true, almost all binaries come with R as shared library - >> it is in fact the default on Mac OS X and Windows. Most Linux >> distributions provide a shared library binary as well. > > This would be good news. But at least, under linux, > > ./configure --help > --enable-R-shlib

Re: [Rd] Using gcc4 visibility features

2006-01-05 Thread elijah wright
>>> R-devel now makes use of gcc4's visibility features: for >>> an in-depth account see > >elijah> does this mean that we now have a dependency on >elijah> gcc4, or just that it "can" use the feature of gcc4? > > the latter (of course!) that's what i expected, i was just checkin

Re: [Rd] Using gcc4 visibility features

2006-01-05 Thread elijah wright
> Subject: [Rd] Using gcc4 visibility features > > R-devel now makes use of gcc4's visibility features: for an in-depth > account see > > http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf does this mean that we now have a dependency on gcc4, or just that it "can" use the feature of gcc4? clarifi