Re: installing segue package on Linux

[James Long]

Jim,

Unrelated to the problems you were having, someone else pointed out to
me that Segue is throwing errors on bootstrapping (start up). I'm
currently diagnosing and have reproduced the problem. I'll probably
patch later today. Just warning you so you won't think you're doing
something wrong :)

tl;dr - Segue's broken right now. Fix ETA: end of day.

-J


On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:29 AM, James Long <jdl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim,
>
> Thanks for your interest in Segue. You're running into two unrelated
> issues. First, Segue is not on CRAN, so the install.packages() syntax
> won't work. And your wget idea is correct, but I don't keep old
> versions of Segue up on the repo, so you have to use the latest
> version, which is 0.04:
>
> wget http://segue.googlecode.com/files/segue_0.04.tar.gz
>
> after you wget the source, install from the command line using:
>
> R CMD INSTALL segue_0.04.tar.gz
>
> Then you should be able to run the examples in Jeff's blog post.
>
> Let me know if that works!
>
> -James
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Jim Kellner <jkel...@umd.edu> wrote:
>> James,
>>
>> I'm very interested in using segue to run parallel jobs using Amazon EC2,
>> which I read about here:
>>
>> http://jeffreybreen.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/segue-r-to-amazon-elastic-mapreduce-hadoop/
>>
>> I'm quite advanced with R on Windows, and use it for running MCMC
>> simulations. These take forever to run, and the inability of standard R to
>> work with multiple cores is painful. I've set up a Linux instance on EC2
>> running Ubuntu and installed R along the lines described here:
>>
>> http://www.r-bloggers.com/automating-r-scripts-on-amazon-ec2/
>>
>> However, I cannot figure out how to install the segue package. If I do:
>>
>> R
>> install.packages("segue")
>>
>> R returns the error message:
>>
>> Warning message:
>> in getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>> package "segue" is not available for R version 2.14.1
>>
>> I've also tried to download the segue tarball manually using:
>>
>> wget "http://code.google.com/p/segue/downloads/list/segue_0.014.tar.gz"
>>
>> But this produces a 404 error.
>>
>> It seems like this should be simple. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks for your help and the hard work you've put into the development of
>> this package. It's going to make my life a lot easier as soon as I'm up and
>> running.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> ___________________________________
>>
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>> Department of Geographical Sciences
>> University of Maryland, College Park
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