[aur-general] Packaging all CRAN packages for R

[Ista Zahn]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for doing this. However, it seems your script does not
correctly specify system dependencies, which IMO is the main benefit
of using pacman instead of install.packages. For example, the sf
package should depend on gdal, goes, and proj. Do you plan to fix all
these dependencies?

Best,
Ista

On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 12:04 PM, Alex Branham via aur-general
<aur-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> I'd like to use pacman to manage R packages, similar to how you can for
> other languages (e.g. the python packages are all named python-*). There
> are some packages available already, but not many (I count about 130
> currently). I wrote a script[1] that generates PKGBUILDS for all the
> packages on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). There's 12,593
> packages on CRAN as of today.
>
> If you evaluate the script, then call write_all_pkgbuilds(), R will put
> each PKGBUILD into PKGBUILDS/r-cran-<pkgname>/PKGBUILD. Here's an
> example of the output.[2] It doesn't generate .SRCINFO or setup a git
> repo (yet). It also doesn't take into account (yet) that there are
> already 130ish R packages on the AUR. I named them r-cran-* rather than
> r-* because 1) it's clearer where the packages are coming from and 2)
> it's a pain to search for r-*
>
> Is this something people would like to have in the AUR? I figured I
> should ask before adding ~12.5k packages.
>
> Any and all comments/feedback appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  https://github.com/jabranham/r-cran-pkgbuilds/blob/master/gen-R-PKGBUILDS.R
> [2]
>
> # Maintainer: Alex Branham <email-address-removed>
> _cranname=A3
> _cranver=1.0.0
> pkgname=r-cran-a3
> pkgver=1.0.0
> pkgrel=1
> pkgdesc="Supplies tools for tabulating and analyzing the results of predictive models. The methods employed are applicable to virtually any predictive model and make comparisons between different methodologies straightforward."
> url="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/${_cranname}/index.html"
> arch=('x86_64')
> license=('GPL')
> depends=('r-cran-xtable' 'r-cran-pbapply')
>
> optdepends=('r-cran-randomforest' 'r-cran-e1071')
>
> source=("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/${_cranname}_${_cranver}.tar.gz")
> md5sums=('027ebdd8affce8f0effaecfcd5f5ade2')
> package() {
>   mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/R/library
>   cd ${srcdir}
>   R CMD INSTALL ${_cranname} -l ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/R/library
> }