One problem solved and a new one to consider...

| Solved the original problem I wrote in about with a combination of r-cran 
| downloads through Synaptic and downloads from one of the mirror sites. 
| Things worked out well.
| 
| Using the ctv package I pulled in the contents of the Finance view. Not 
| clear which one, but one of the packages called up RDCOMClient as an 
| apparent dependency. Not showing up as an r-cran file or on any of the 
| mirrors I've tried. Is this needed for R on Linux, or is it a leftover from 
| a Windows edition of whatever package called it as a dependency? If it is 
| useful to a Linux setup of R, the question is where can I find and 
| download/install the silly thing?

Looks like that comes from RBloomberg. So it appears that you need to filter
the output of ctv for the Finance taskview to exclude the packages not
available on your architecture. So just remove RBloomberg and the desire to
fetch RDCOMClient will vanish.  Both are Windows-only.

CCing Achim to see if that can, and if so should, be fixed on the ctv side of
things. 

Thanks for the heads-up.

Dirk

Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.

On 4 May 2008 at 19:48, Brian Lunergan wrote:
| Solved the original problem I wrote in about with a combination of r-cran 
| downloads through Synaptic and downloads from one of the mirror sites. 
| Things worked out well.
| 
| Using the ctv package I pulled in the contents of the Finance view. Not 
| clear which one, but one of the packages called up RDCOMClient as an 
| apparent dependency. Not showing up as an r-cran file or on any of the 
| mirrors I've tried. Is this needed for R on Linux, or is it a leftover from 
| a Windows edition of whatever package called it as a dependency? If it is 
| useful to a Linux setup of R, the question is where can I find and 
| download/install the silly thing?

Looks like that comes from RBloomberg. So it appears that you need to filter
the output of ctv for the Finance taskview to exclude the packages not
available on your architecture. So just remove RBloomberg and the desire to
fetch RDCOMClient will vanish.  Both are Windows-only.

CCing Achim to see if that can, and if so should, be fixed on the ctv side of
things. 

Thanks for the heads-up.

Dirk

Interesting thought, but how would you accomplish this filtering by 
platform? Just took a quick skim of install.views() help and the only 
filtering possible at the moment appears to be whether you want just the 
core capabilities or the whole enchilada. No apparent provision for 
filtering by platform.

Brian Lunergan
Nepean, Ontario
Canada

| > Looks like that comes from RBloomberg. So it appears that you need to filter
| > the output of ctv for the Finance taskview to exclude the packages not
| > available on your architecture. So just remove RBloomberg and the desire to
| > fetch RDCOMClient will vanish.  Both are Windows-only.
| > 
| > CCing Achim to see if that can, and if so should, be fixed on the ctv side of
| > things. 
| > 
| > Thanks for the heads-up.
| > 
| > Dirk
| > 
| 
| Interesting thought, but how would you accomplish this filtering by 
| platform? Just took a quick skim of install.views() help and the only 
| filtering possible at the moment appears to be whether you want just the 
| core capabilities or the whole enchilada. No apparent provision for 
| filtering by platform.

See the r-devel list; looks like Brian Ripley just added a new field to
DESCRIPTION so that packages can declare themselves to available on a certain
platform. 

Hth, Dirk

Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.