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Bug 101909 - Nothing in portage for R packages. Specifically e1071
Summary: Nothing in portage for R packages. Specifically e1071
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Default Assignee for New Packages
URL: http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib...
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Reported: 2005-08-09 15:11 UTC by Raphael
Modified: 2006-11-29 02:47 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Raphael 2005-08-09 15:11:57 UTC
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 ]
Comment 1 Anthony Staines 2006-01-15 07:59:49 UTC
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 ]
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-11-29 02:47:34 UTC
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.