Homebrew-science / Homebrew / Linuxbrew

[sjackman]

I'm the maintainer of Linuxbrew, a maintainer of Homebrew-science, and a contributor to Homebrew. I wanted to post my involvement with these projects to say that I'm happy to make any improvements that could make your R hacking more effective.

Cheers, Shaun

[gaborcsardi]

Related: I think it would be great to have some mappings from the SystemRequirements field in DESCRIPTION to the names of the corresponding libraries/tools on various platforms. Then the installer could give a more meaningful error message. So we could have something like this for Homebrew, Debian, Windows, etc.

So how about creating a sysreqmaps package?

[sjackman]

Yes. @eeddelbuettel and I have been discussing this matter in #25.

[sjackman]

I've created a very thin R package over the Homebrew command line client brew. https://github.com/sjackman/homebrewr

brew_install("hello")
brew_remove("hello")
brew_update()
brew_upgrade()