On 06/12/10 03:31 PM, Tal Galili wrote:
Hello David,
I am not sure I understood your question.
Sorry, perhaps I should have rephrased it better.
Are you asking what are the packages that the R release comes with?
Sort of. When R is configured, there is an option
--with-recommended-packages
use/install recommended R packages [yes]
which defaults to yes. So I assume that installs some recommended, but not
essential packages.
We are building R in Sage with no options, so various non-essential packages are
building because that is the default, though some (Matrix being one of them), is
not building on Solaris.
So when R is tested a failure occurs.
The build of R apppears to succeed, but a check shows some problems - see here
http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mpatel/trac/8306/r-2.10.1.p2.log
What I'd like to find is a list of packages (like Matrix) which would be
installed with a default installation of R, but are missing from my installation.
We would like something that can quickly check if it is built or not - we don't
wish to run an extensive time-consuming test suite.
Or are you asking what recommended packages one should have when installing
R? (There is a good list to start with
here<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/54763/what-r-package-do-you-use-most>
)
No,
Also, are you asking how to not need to install new packages when upgrading
R?
No
(For that, you can have a look at a post I wrote on an alternative way for
upgrading R on
windows<http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/>,
which might give relevant ideas for your case as well)
Best,
Tal
Thank you.
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