emews-r-x

A simple Anaconda package with unmodified R from SVN for use with EMEWS.

Only necessary for platform osx-arm64, due to a memory error in the official Anaconda release. Still a problem as of 2024-12-12.

See the projects for emews-r and emews-rinside.

Remember to use capabilities() to check features.

Using R from SVN r85879 .

User installation

The end user should be able to simply:

$ conda install -c swift-t emews-r-x

This will install R in the given Anaconda.

This should default to the latest version (see below).

The user can then run:

$ ./install-apps.sh

to install the "application" libraries farver and ggplot2.

Versions for X and other features

Our original emews-r was built with:

--enable-R-shlib
--disable-java
--without-readline
--without-tcltk
--without-cairo
--without-jpeglib
--without-libtiff
--without-ICU
--with-included-gettext
--without-x
--without-recommended-packages
--without-aqua

This project tries to re-enable these features as needed for ggplot2 and other graphical applications.

In priority order from top priority (1) to lowest:

emews-r-x==1

Drops --without-x.
Works, tested by jozik .

emews-r-x==2

Drops --without-aqua.
Uploaded, untested.

emews-r-x==3

Drops --without-readline.
Uploaded, untested.

emews-r-x==4

Drops --without-cairo.
Cairo seems to be important for plotting file formats.

emews-r-x==5

Force installation of clangxx to address issue when building packages with C++

emews-r-x==6

Add activate.sh to address .libPaths() issue
WIP

Usage

1. Install a build Miniconda

2. Run setup-conda.sh

3. Run conda-build.sh

Notes

Remember to: . Update PLATFORM .. in conda-build.sh .. in meta.yaml . Update meta.yaml:source:path: . Install xcrun

For SSH

1. Use ssh -X

2. Set ForwardX11Trusted yes

Interactive builds (for humans)

1. Install a fresh Anaconda

2. $ ./human-setup.sh

3. $ ./human-build.sh R_SVN WORK
   where R_SVN is the R SVN checkout and WORK is a temporary build directory for R