There do not appear to be any packages in portage for R such as those at http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html. Specifically, I would like to install e1071 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/Descriptions/e1071.html Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. attempt to install e1071 package for R 2. Find it is not available in portage 3. Be sad Actual Results: It is not there. You are sad. Expected Results: It would be great if the R packages were in portage esearch e1071 [ Results for search key : e1071 ] [ Applications found : 0 ]
R has the same issues as Perl and, I think TEX. There is a core system, respectively interpreters for a statistical and graphical language, for, well, Perl, and for a type-setting language. Then there are packages (in Perl and TEX) and libraries (in R) where most of the functionality of the system lives. For R, these libraries are written in a mixture of the R itself, C and bits of Fortran. It should be possible to do something similar to what Perl has for CPAN for R. Is this a good idea? It would add several hundred packages to portage, although perl has added 560+ as of today. Any comments? Anthony Staines (In reply to comment #0) > There do not appear to be any packages in portage for R such as those at > http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html. Specifically, I would like > to install e1071 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/Descriptions/e1071.html > > Reproducible: Always > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. attempt to install e1071 package for R > 2. Find it is not available in portage > 3. Be sad > > Actual Results: > It is not there. You are sad. > > Expected Results: > It would be great if the R packages were in portage > > esearch e1071 > [ Results for search key : e1071 ] > [ Applications found : 0 ]
No progress here for over 1 year, closing CANTFIX. Feel free to reopen w/ someone proof-of-concept "g-cpan like" implementation for R packages or whatever (or if you make ebuilds for individual packages, file separate bugs for them). Thanks.