On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Vojtěch Zeisek <vojtech.zeisek@opensuse.org> wrote:

Hello, Fedora has very nicely packaged contribution packages for R (http://www.r-project.org/), try to browse https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ and they have tools to do it, see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:R We have http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/ but it is practically empty. :-( Well, it would be very nice to have all the tones of R packages from mirrors like http://cran.r-project.org/ , http://www.rforge.net/ or http://www.bioconductor.org/ It is possible to install R's packages using R's tools, but very often it has to be compiled, which can be very tricky. Now, there is now way how to do it easily - just see logs and from errors guess which libraries are required... And sometimes I find, that it requires unavailable packages. Like recent upgrade of RGoogleMaps requiring libpng14, which I didn't find for openSUSE 12.3... But it's just small example... Well, is there any hope, that we could see R packages in openSUSE in near future? ;-) Last note: If I'd be able to do it, I'd do it. ;-) Have a nice day,

About a year ago I imported all, at the time, 3446 R Packages into the devel:languages:R:CRAN-packages repository so they were in OBS. The majority of them likely do not build but it should be relatively trivial to branch and resolve those issues. Once they build just create an SR for devel:languages:R:base which should be the final destination for the working packages. https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=devel%3Alanguages%3AR%3ACRAN... -- Later, Darin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org