Bug 580756

Summary:	Cantor is missing the R back-end
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Kevin Coonan <kevin.coonan>
Component:	KDE4 Applications	Assignee:	E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	ctrippe, detlef.steuer, forgotten_kHYb7eJGnH, matt
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.2
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Description Kevin Coonan 2010-02-18 01:03:01 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.0) Gecko/20100115 SUSE/3.6.0-1.2 Firefox/3.6

The back-end configuration in Cantor does not include R.  This has also been reported w/ Ubuntu systems.  

I have the current R-base and associated packages installed.

Also, Cantor is designed to work w/ Sage.  While many, if not most, of the components of Sage is available via the "usual and customary" scientific repos, I could not locate Sage via Webpin.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start Cantor
2.Choose configure
3.Note missing back-end!
Actual Results:  
n/a

Expected Results:  
An option to use R as a backend.

Since the reason many people are interested in Cantor is for a GUI for R, this is a pretty significant issue.

Comment 1 Matt Williams 2010-02-27 21:09:38 UTC

I spoke to the developer of Cantor and he said that it is a compile-time dependency. Would it be possible to build against R so that it is available?

Comment 2 Forgotten User kHYb7eJGnH 2010-08-13 22:16:24 UTC

Hi Kevin, is this bug fixed in 11.3?

Thanks
Steve

Comment 3 Christian Trippe 2010-09-29 07:11:02 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> I spoke to the developer of Cantor and he said that it is a compile-time
> dependency. Would it be possible to build against R so that it is available?

The only possibility to build against R is if R gets added to Factory. There is already someone building R on the OBS.

Setting NEEDINFO to the maintainer of devel:languages:R

@Detlef Steuer: Would you be interested to maintain R in Factory?

Comment 4 Detlef Steuer 2010-09-29 07:20:23 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > I spoke to the developer of Cantor and he said that it is a compile-time
> > dependency. Would it be possible to build against R so that it is available?
> 
> The only possibility to build against R is if R gets added to Factory. There is
> already someone building R on the OBS.
> 
> Setting NEEDINFO to the maintainer of devel:languages:R
> 
> @Detlef Steuer: Would you be interested to maintain R in Factory?

R-base lives in opensuse Factory since a few years!

Do you mean something else?

Detlef

Comment 5 Christian Trippe 2010-09-29 07:45:42 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> R-base lives in opensuse Factory since a few years!
> 

Sorry, I do not see it if I do 'osc ls openSUSE:Factory | grep R-base'

> Do you mean something else?
> 

I mean making it available in the main Distribution. See e.g. http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/03/23/how-to-add-new-packages-to-the-opensuse-distribution/

Sorry if I have overlooked it.

Christian

Comment 6 Christian Trippe 2011-01-27 20:40:55 UTC

Thanks to Detlef R-base is now in Factory. So the R-backend for Cantor will be build for openSUSE 11.4. (The latter was done after Milestone 6).

Comment 7 Bernhard Wiedemann 2016-04-15 10:48:10 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (580756) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/59232 Factory / kdeedu4