Two quick comments while I catch up with the email back log from travelling:
On 28 November 2009 at 10:50, Guillaume Yziquel wrote: | I've been told that there's an interesting scheme, used by r-base-ra, to It's 'r-base-core-ra' and I mentioned that in off-line email only to show that you can arrange to have more than one R interpreter in Debian. On 29 November 2009 at 16:54, Guillaume Yziquel wrote: | Interfacing to hidden symbols in order to try out stuff from an | interactive session is also a good reason. I'd rather have to deal with | a moving API than contemplating an API moving. As Duncan, Uwe, and I have told you already, this may get frustrating in the long run as changes may break your bindings. Accessing a hidden API is doing so against the wishes of the API designers / maintainers... | That's what I did. As I did not want to screw up my whole Debian system, | I built up a package, which might be useful for people writing language | bindings. It's pointless to buy a second computer or meddle with chroots | just to recompile R. That's all. You do not need a chroot or second computer either. Just how r-base-core-ra uses the normal --prefix argument to configure to install into a second, non-overlapping file tree, you could use /usr/lib/ROcaml/ or some directory other than /usr/lib/R + /usr/share/R which are taken by the R package for Debian. R developers use the same --prefix trick to keep r-releases, r-patched, r-devel, ... installed at the same time. Anyway, good luck with the endeavour. Something useful may well come from it. Cheers, Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
