On Jun 12, 9:07 am, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 1) Get a list of recommended packages from that version of R - > > preferably in a way that does not require them to be hard-coded in a > > test script, but generated by R. > > Unfortunately, I couldn't find one when I was looking for it. It might > be worth asking the R list whether there is something like this that > does not require Internet (which, after all, should not be a > requirement for building Sage once one actually has a Sage copy), nor > parsing some huge list of *all* packages.
The shell script could parse the directory where the Recommended packages live by calling (from the root of the R directory) ls src/library/Recommended/*.tar.gz src/library/Recommended/boot_1.2-42.tar.gz src/library/ Recommended/Matrix_0.999375-38.tar.gz src/library/Recommended/class_7.3-2.tar.gz src/library/ Recommended/mgcv_1.6-2.tar.gz src/library/Recommended/cluster_1.12.3.tar.gz src/library/ Recommended/nlme_3.1-96.tar.gz src/library/Recommended/codetools_0.2-2.tar.gz src/library/ Recommended/nnet_7.3-1.tar.gz src/library/Recommended/foreign_0.8-40.tar.gz src/library/ Recommended/rpart_3.1-46.tar.gz src/library/Recommended/KernSmooth_2.23-3.tar.gz src/library/ Recommended/spatial_7.3-2.tar.gz src/library/Recommended/lattice_0.18-5.tar.gz src/library/ Recommended/survival_2.35-8.tar.gz src/library/Recommended/MASS_7.3-5.tar.gz > Ben's way of testing them should work > (seehttp://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html, > and he is right that library('tools') is needed), but I don't know how > to get a shell script like spkg-check to run these commands in R, or > anything else. Of course, this would do a lot more than check their > presence, and would be more or less like running spkg-check, I guess. If the commands can be put into a .R file, then spkg-check can just run that file, e.g. R --no-save < myFile.R > myOutput.txt If something dynamic needs to be done then something like echo "thisFunctionDoesNotExist(); norThisOne()" | R --no-save would work, and by work I mean fail in this case. There are some other ways too. Ben -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
