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cameronbracken / pgfSweave

Quality graphics and speedy compilation with Sweave
http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/pgfsweave/
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pgfSweave removed from CRAN? #42

Closed psibre closed 12 years ago

psibre commented 12 years ago

Really more of a deployment issue, but what's up with that?

From http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pgfSweave/index.html:

Package ‘pgfSweave’ was removed from the CRAN repository.

Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive.

psibre commented 12 years ago

Oh, just found http://cameron.bracken.bz/who-wants-to-maintain-pgfsweave

Never mind then...

cameronbracken commented 12 years ago

do you want to do it?

psibre commented 12 years ago

I wish my R-fu was that strong!

Right now I'm struggling to figure out how to install it from local source... =(

psibre commented 12 years ago

For the record, I just packed up my git clone using tar cfz pgfSweave.tar.gz pgfSweave, and then R was happy to install that file as a "local source package" (after I installed the required dependencies manually).

(This running R 2.15.1 on OS X 10.6.8 btw)

cameronbracken commented 12 years ago

You can actually just run

R CMD INSTALL pgfSweave

on the git clone or

R CMD INSTALL .

from within the project folder to achieve the same thing.

Sharpie commented 12 years ago

Are the packages on R-Forge stable? If so, one could just run:

install.packages('pgfSweave', repos = 'http://r-forge.r-project.org')
psibre commented 12 years ago

@cameronbracken Cool, thanks for the pointer! I'd failed to find anything of the sort in the R GUI, but as the saying goes,

If you want it done properly, you have to do it from the command line.

=)

psibre commented 12 years ago

@Sharpie Sure enough, that's the easier solution that doesn't even require git cloning the source. And that repo also has 1.3.0.

Sharpie commented 12 years ago

It's also the recommended way to get the tikzDevice at the moment---until I get a new release out to CRAN which should happen by the end of the month.

Unfortunately, the CRAN maintainers were overly agressive in the last round of removals.

cameronbracken commented 12 years ago

@Sharpie R-Forge should be up to date but no guarantees, Github will always be up to date :)