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#7 avoid the installation of R

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2010-09-14
2010-09-14
Sam Thiriot
No

R is just installed because of the igraph library; directly link the igraph library ?

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  • Sam Thiriot

    Sam Thiriot - 2010-09-14

    1) the igraph group distributes no java library (http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/igraph-help/2008-05/msg00013.html) .
    - using the igraph python extension, and load it in jython, is not a solution (jython does not allows to link static c libraries)
    - develop a JNI interface to the igraph C library ? (see thread http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/igraph-help/2009-07/msg00075.html\). Main limitation: will have to compile one native library per OS (?)

    2) JRI (java R interface) requires R to be installed (http://www.rforge.net/rJava/) => not a valid solution

    3) avoid igraph, and use a java library to compute the average path length and so on (?)

     
  • Sam Thiriot

    Sam Thiriot - 2010-09-14
    • priority: 5 --> 2
     
  • Sam Thiriot

    Sam Thiriot - 2011-01-02

    The license of R is GPL2; we may thus distribute it along with R, and invoke our own instance of R.

     

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