[Insight-users] Wrapping R with SimpleITK

[Brandon Whitcher]

Brad,

Ah, the source directory... and not the binary directory.  Thanks!

A major hurdle to overcome with the installation is the fact that R (I am
using R 2.14.1) now requires complete man pages with all information filled
in!  Given the number of files in the man/ directory

ls SimpleITK/man/ | wc
   3169    3169  118025

an automated method must be implemented in order to install SimpleITK as an
R package.

Also, the manual copying of "libSimpleITK.so" is slightly non-standard.  I
know that a customized installation process is allowed, but I don't know
how it would be applied to SimpleITK.

I would recommend engaging the R-developer mailing list to get some advice
on brining together SimpleITK (the ITK version) and SimpleITK (the R
package... maybe RITK or rITK?).

I'll keep trying as a dynamic library instead of a full-on package.

Happy New Year!

Brandon

On 31 December 2011 18:11, Bradley Lowekamp <blowekamp at mail.nih.gov> wrote:

> Hello Brandon,
>
> The particular files you looking for are in the SimpleITK source directory
> not the build. You will need both the DESCRIPTION and the zzz.R files from
> the {SIMPLEITK_SOURCE}/Wrapping/R_Package directory.
>
> We have been calling R a Tier 2 or Tier 3 language in SimpleITK because is
> not as well supported as the other wrapped languages such as Python, Java,
> CSharp or even Ruby, or TCL. The primary reason for this is that we have
> not gotten the automatic testing working for R, so that it will show up on
> the nightly dashboard. Additionally, we also are hoping for contribution
> from the community to get the R language specific features polished and up
> to the expected R standard conventions.
>
> I hope this helps you with getting SimpleITK working R,
>
> Brad
>
> ========================================================
>
> Bradley Lowekamp
>
> Medical Science and Computing for
>
> Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
>
> National Library of Medicine
>
> blowekamp at mail.nih.gov
>
> On Dec 31, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Brandon Whitcher wrote:
>
> Dear ITK/SimpleITK experts,
>
> I have installed SimpleITK by turning off all wrapping facilities except
> WRAP_R.  I am now following the instructions in
>
> http://www.itk.org/SimpleITKDoxygen/html/Wrapping.html
>
> Specifically,
>
>
>    - 6) Copy the file
>
>        SimpleITK/Wrapping/R_Package/DESCRIPTION
>
> into the current
>
>        SimpleITK/DESCRIPTION
>
> ...but I cannot find the file Wrapping/R_package/DESCRIPTION in my
> SimpleITK-binary installation.  Where is this file?
>
> thank-you,
>
> Brandon
>
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