> On 21/10/2017, at 10:37, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > > On 10/20/2017 11:30 AM, Nils Bruin wrote: >> Do we actually get real benefit from packaging R with sage? It seems to >> me R is a very popular, very mature piece of software. Isn't it easy to >> install R on any of the platforms supported by sage? If that is the >> case, wouldn't it be much easier to let sage just work with the >> system-wide R if that is available? > > > No, yes, yes.
Of course we had those conversations before. sage interfaces with R in two ways: * directly with the R command line through the pexpect interface * through rpy The first way can happily use system wide R. The second is more complicated. We have to build sage’s rpy and rpy links directly to libR and that’s where the potential madness comes in, libR links to blas/lapack. So there is a potential clash between system blas/lapack and sage blas/lapack in rpy. This may (or not) be dealt with by being careful in building rpy in sage. François -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
