Sorry, those messages were supposed to have come out periodically over the last week or two.

I've got the next version ready, tested as I had alluded to in my previous.

http://nersp.osg.ufl.edu/~asr/media/R2spec-2.6.1-asr.src.rpm

So, here's what I did to get more or less useful results out of it:

After installing, I made a temp directory, /var/tmp/Rstuff.

There, I ran (as root):

# clear; R2spec -n "Allen S. Rout" -e "asr@ufl.edu" -c --force --suggests --verbose --package ggplot2

This downloaded the CRAN-like lists of packages, downloaded source tarballs, and built (and copied) the specfiles and source.

It also generated a few dot files, including the broad and narrow dependency graphs for the requested package.

It also generates a shell file: 'rpmbuild.sh'. This is intended to make all the RPMs you need for the broad graph.

I haven't decided what the sane options are in terms of 'pwd' throughout all this process. At the moment, the next step is:

# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS # sh /var/tmp/Rstuff/rpmbuild.sh

This will build and install all of the RPMs in the broad graph. ... If the individual builds work.

This script uses a tempdir extensively, again I'm not sure what the Right Way is to do this, I haven't thought about it too much yet. It's statically defined at the beginning of the script to be

/var/tmp/Rstuff

that's obviously inappropriate for release, but will do for the moment.

The script drops a build log and an install log for every package addressed.

Right now, for me to get the sysdeps to build and install all (most) of ggplot2's broad depgraph, I must:

yum install openmpi openmpi-devel openmpi-libs unixODBC-devel pvm tcl tcl-devel perl-DateManip perl-Date-Calc perl-version

and then install from EPEL:

environment-modules-3.2.6-4.el5.x86_64.rpm mpich2-1.1.1-1.el5.x86_64.rpm perl-IO-stringy-2.110-5.el5.noarch.rpm perl-Jcode-2.06-6.el5.noarch.rpm perl-OLE-Storage_Lite-0.14-9.el5.noarch.rpm perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.96-1.el5.noarch.rpm perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.18-1.el5.noarch.rpm perl-Unicode-Map-0.112-12.el5.x86_64.rpm

and then install from the graphviz people:

graphviz-2.24.0-1.el5.x86_64.rpm graphviz-devel-2.24.0-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

With these things done, I still fail to build (and haven't investigated much yet):

tcltk2: Fails to install: need tclsh8.3, not 8.4 ?

multcomp: requires Survival >= 2.35.7 ? ...

flexmix: dep on multcomp

R-RandomFields, R-MCMCpack: uncaught debug files in the build tree.

MPI, sprng

As threatened, my next step will be a similar shell script to R CMD CHECK all the packages, and populate yet another family of logfiles. Once that is complete, I will re-announce and go back to try to figure out why individual packages fail.

- Allen S. Rout