Bug 152720

Summary:	dev-lang/R has a dependency on NoWeb
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	M. Edward Borasky <znmeb>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Science Related Packages <sci>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.peterrudloff.org/docs/sweave.pdf
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description M. Edward Borasky 2006-10-24 17:05:14 UTC

R has a built-in package called "SWeave" for literate programming that uses "noweb". As a result, an R user that uses SWeave will need to have "noweb" installed.

Comment 1 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-10-24 19:02:52 UTC

Hi, 

Thanks for your bug report! Could you please give a simple example
that shows how R fails! I've tried the following which works fine
despite noweb not being present on my system

testfile <- system.file("Sweave", "Sweave-test-1.Rnw", package = "utils") options(par.ask.default=FALSE)
Sweave(testfile)

Thanks,
Markus

Comment 2 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-09-16 10:05:00 UTC

Any update on this one or a test that shows how R fails without
noweb so I can test it out?

Thanks,
Markus

Comment 3 M. Edward Borasky 2007-09-16 15:17:51 UTC

It looks like it's working now. Go ahead and close it.

Comment 4 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-09-17 12:44:42 UTC

Thanks! Please re-open should this crop up again.

cheers,
Markus