Skip to content

RJAGS Installation Issues

5 messages · Martyn Plummer, Jeroen Ooms, Martin Maechler

Original
Martin Maechler
# 
A few months ago,  Eric asked about this for CentOS 6:
 https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-fedora/2014-April/000310.html

and was kindly helped by Marc Schwartz.
OTOH, we are running Fedora 19,  currently upgrading to Fedora 20.

The RPM find link for  'jags-devel' which Marc provided really seems
to cater to CentOS or RHEL 5,
but not directly to any newer Fedora.

Also there, I'd ideally  (tell our sys.admins to) use
   yum install jags-devel
 so  jags should stay updated and will also be added to the "upgrade
procedures for next time"
 but yum above does not find anything at least not with further hand
holding, i.e., possibly by specifying a specific mirror.

Do any of you have experience here and/or a recommendation?

Thank you in advance,
Martin

--
Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich
Martyn Plummer
# 
The primary source of RPMS for JAGS is the repository created by Lars Vilhuber:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cornell_vrdc/

It is true that Lars does not create RPMs for Fedora, presumably because they do not use it at Cornell. I had not thought about this before. I do use Fedora but I always install JAGS from source.

I am a little concerned to realise that there is a different RPM for each major release of R (i.e. we have jags, jags2, jags3, etc.) This means that Marc unwittingly pointed to a very old version of JAGS. In addition, if you install the jags3 RPM then you will not get a yum update the day I release JAGS 4.0.0 (and the day is coming, trust me).

Martyn
Jeroen Ooms
#
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Martyn Plummer <plummerm at iarc.fr> wrote:
It is quite easy to (re)build rpm binary packages on another platform
using the rpm source package. Usually the rpm source package is the
same for Fedora/CentOS/RHEL, unless you have some exotic dependencies.

Suse also offers a free build service (OBS) to do the building for
you. You upload a src rpm (or just give a hyperlink), and their
machines will build and publish binary rpm's for various distributions
and architectures of your choice, including Fedora. Thereby you can
easily manage your own repository, and your admin only has to add the
repository, and do a yum update once in a while.

Just for fun, I tried grabbing some src rpms from Lars' centos6 repo
[1] and build them for Fedora on OBS. I haven't tried installing them
(not a Fedora user), but all builds were successful so I'm going to
guess they will work. You can see the overview in [2] and grab
binaries from [3,4,5] for jags version 1,2 and 3, respectively.

[1] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cornell_vrdc/CentOS_CentOS-6/src/
[2] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:jeroenooms:jags
[3] http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Ajeroenooms%3Ajags&package=jags
[4] http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Ajeroenooms%3Ajags&package=jags2
[5] http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Ajeroenooms%3Ajags&package=jags3
Martyn Plummer
# 
Thanks Jeroen. Lars uses OBS as well, so he just added Fedora to his
list of repositories. Fedora RPMs are now available at

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cornell_vrdc/Fedora_20/

Martyn
On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 21:25 +0200, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This message and its attachments are strictly confidenti...{{dropped:8}}
Martin Maechler
# 
> Thanks Jeroen. Lars uses OBS as well, so he just added
    > Fedora to his list of repositories. Fedora RPMs are now
    > available at

      > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cornell_vrdc/Fedora_20/

    > Martyn

Phantastic!
Thank you very much, Martyn, Jeroen and Lars!

Martin Maechler
> On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 21:25 +0200, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Martyn Plummer
    >> <plummerm at iarc.fr> wrote: > The primary source of RPMS
    >> for JAGS is the repository created by Lars Vilhuber: >
    >> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cornell_vrdc/
    >> >
    >> > It is true that Lars does not create RPMs for Fedora,
    >> presumably because they do not use it at Cornell. I had
    >> not thought about this before. I do use Fedora but I
    >> always install JAGS from source.
    >> 
    >> It is quite easy to (re)build rpm binary packages on
    >> another platform using the rpm source package. Usually
    >> the rpm source package is the same for
    >> Fedora/CentOS/RHEL, unless you have some exotic
    >> dependencies.
    >> 
    >> Suse also offers a free build service (OBS) to do the
    >> building for you. You upload a src rpm (or just give a
    >> hyperlink), and their machines will build and publish
    >> binary rpm's for various distributions and architectures
    >> of your choice, including Fedora. Thereby you can easily
    >> manage your own repository, and your admin only has to
    >> add the repository, and do a yum update once in a while.
    >> 
    >> Just for fun, I tried grabbing some src rpms from Lars'
    >> centos6 repo [1] and build them for Fedora on OBS. I
    >> haven't tried installing them (not a Fedora user), but
    >> all builds were successful so I'm going to guess they
    >> will work. You can see the overview in [2] and grab
    >> binaries from [3,4,5] for jags version 1,2 and 3,
    >> respectively.
    >> 
    >> [1]
    >> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cornell_vrdc/CentOS_CentOS-6/src/
    >> [2]
    >> https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:jeroenooms:jags
    >> [3]
    >> http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Ajeroenooms%3Ajags&package=jags
    >> [4]
    >> http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Ajeroenooms%3Ajags&package=jags2
    >> [5]
    >> http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Ajeroenooms%3Ajags&package=jags3

    > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > This message and its attachments are strictly
    > confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of
    > this message, please immediately notify the sender and
    > delete it. Since its integrity cannot be guaranteed, its
    > content cannot involve the sender's responsibility. Any
    > misuse, any disclosure or publication of its content,
    > either whole or partial, is prohibited, exception made of
    > formally approved use
    > -----------------------------------------------------------------------