[rkward-users] rkward in Kubuntu Intrepid beta broken

[stfs]

Is there anything  a  non-programmer can do to help the situation?

 
From: Prasenjit Kapat <kapatp at gm...> - 2008-10-22 06:02
 > Hi Users,
 >
 > The problem with R 2.8.0 is something different. Provided below is a
 > mail from Michael who maintains the ubuntu packages on CRAN. Similar
 > problem has also been reported on SuSE. I am not aware of any
 > solution, but something does need to be done to fix this. Unless you
 > really need R 2.8.0, I suggest pinning R 2.7.2 version as available
 > from CRAN.
 >
 > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Donatas G. <dgvirtual at ak...> wrote:
 > > Hi, RKWard in Ubuntu Intrepid Beta is currently broken: when you 
install
 > > a *.deb package for intrepid from the ubuntu repositories (or 
compile it
 > > yourselt the Debian way by taking sources either from ubuntu
 > > repositories or from the sourceforge.net rkward debian repository) you
 > > get Rkward without the Main menu and without the the "Welcome to 
RKward"
 > > page.... Also, without the "Help" menu!
 > >
 > > But if you compile it yourself with a simple sequence:
 > >
 > > cd rkward_source_dir
 > > cmake .
 > > make
 > > sudo make install
 > >
 > > Rkward looks normal, only missing some icons...
 > >
 > > I guess that means that there is an error in rkward sources, maybe
 > > related to the former Kubuntu place to KDE4 packages...
 >
 > Michael says:
 >
 > ========================
 > I maintain Ubuntu packages on CRAN for amd64. Today, the new version of
 > R (2.8.0) came out, and I am unable to build an rkward package based
 > around 2.8.0. Turns out the decision has been made to remove Rdevices.h
 > and Rgraphics.h from the installed portion of R. They still exist in
 > the source code, however. Since Rdevices.h is not available to ubuntu,
 > the build fails under hardy and intrepid. Same problem with the package
 > rpy.
 >
 > Not sure what the fix is, but at this point I think we are going to
 > release R 2.8.0 builds for ubuntu without an update to rkward. Would
 > have found this sooner, but testing packages is one of the last things
 > on the list.
 >
 > Thanks,
 > Michael
 > ======================
 >
 > Hopefully something will come up soon.


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