On 11 October 2008 at 20:12, Edzer J. Pebesma wrote:
| something like | | R CMD INSTALL RSAGA_version_x.y.tar.gz | | possibly preceded with a "sudo", so that it becomes installed | system-wide. And then see if it works! Yup, and if it doesn't, try to debug where maybe Windows-specific commands or settings are used. It should be easy to overcome this -- many R packages do. Dirk | -- | Edzer |
| Josh Harmsen wrote:
| > I've actually already had correspondence with the author, he thought | > it was possible to do, but asked me to find out what would be needed | > to get it in a Linux environment and I was going to get back to him. | > SAGA actually compiles nicely in Linux (the gui and cmd) and I have | > successfully done this, so that should not be the issue. | > | > Here is what we have: | > R Source package for RSAGA (and author cced!) | > Windows Binary for RSAGA (no use to us) | > SAGA compiles for Ubuntu Hardy with no problems | > | > So with this, what are the necessary steps? | > | > Thanks, | > | > Josh | > | > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Edzer Pebesma
| > <edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de> wrote:
| > | >> The other option I would recommend is to contact the package author (Cc:), | >> and ask what he thinks would be needed to port RSAGA to linux. I'm not sure | >> about this, but I believe he or someone else once mentioned that SAGA (to | >> which RSAGA interfaces) has a command line interface that is only available | >> on the windows platform. If that is the case, SAGA would be the project to | >> push first to get this running under linux. | >> -- | >> Edzer | >>
| >> Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >>
| >>> On 10 October 2008 at 15:42, Josh Harmsen wrote:
| >>> | The package is RSAGA | >>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RSAGA/index.html | >>> | | CRAN does have the package source available, which is what I want to | >>> | get to work in R on a Ubuntu Hardy 64bit. If the process is trivial | >>> | could you guide me through it or point me to a resource that explains | >>> | it? | >>> | >>> Not knowing anything about the particular details of this package I'd | >>> refer | >>> you to what the package author clearly states in the DESCRIPTION info for | >>> the | >>> package that is available at the URL you provide that: | >>> | >>> SystemRequirements: Windows, SAGA (>=2.0.2) | >>> | >>> To make that even more plain, RSAGA depends | >>> a) on SAGA (do you have that on Ubuntu amd64 ?), and | >>> b) on Windows. | >>> You are, in other words, out of luck. | >>> Look into virtualbox, a rather nice virtualization package included in | >>> Ubuntu | >>> in the 'open source edition' and look into installing a Windows session | >>> inside your Ubuntu system. You can share folders etc pp. Maybe that can | >>> help | >>> you. | >>> | >>> Dirk | >>> | >>> | >>> | >> -- | >> Edzer Pebesma | >> Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), University of M?nster, | >> Weseler Stra?e 253, 48151 M?nster, Germany. Phone: +49 251 | >> 8333081, Fax: +49 251 8339763 http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/ | >> http://www.springer.com/978-0-387-78170-9 | >> | >> | >> |
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