[Debian-med-packaging] Packaging R igraph for Debian

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
>
> Hmmmm, may be I might exclude this test for the moment.

It guess ignoring it is fine, because it probably only happens to
degenerate graphs, and it fails with an error message.

>> The second one I can reproduce, and it will be fixed in the next
>> version of igraph.
>
> Fine.  Do you have a rough estimation when this will be available?  I do
> not want to put some pressure on you - just want to know whether I
> should wait or for the moment document the problem and skip the test.

Don't wait, because it might not happen soon. Btw. are you aware of
this: https://github.com/marutter/CRAN-PPA and the corresponding
Launchpad PPA? Maybe you can just get the package from there.

Best,
Gabor



> Thanks for your quick feedback
>
>         Andreas.
>
>> Best,
>> Gabor
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
>> > Hi Gabor,
>> >
>> > I intend to package R igraph for Debian[1] since it is needed by one of
>> > the target packages of the Debian Med project.  When I run the unit
>> > tests via
>> >
>> > LC_ALL=C R --no-save <<EOT
>> > library(igraph)
>> > igraphtest()
>> > EOT
>> >
>> >
>> > I get
>> >
>> >
>> > walktrap.community : ........
>> > watts.strogatz.game : ..................................................
>> >
>> >
>> > 1. Error: evcent works -----------------------------------------------------
>> > At arpack.c:944 : ARPACK error, No shifts could be applied during a cycle of the Implicitly restarted Arnoldi iteration. One possibility is to increase the size of NCV relative to NEV
>> > 1: evcent(G) at test_evcent.R:42
>> > 2: .Call("R_igraph_eigenvector_centrality", graph, directed, scale, weights, options,
>> >        PACKAGE = "igraph")
>> > 3: .handleSimpleError(function (e)
>> >    {
>> >        e$calls <- head(sys.calls()[-seq_len(frame + 7)], -2)
>> >        signalCondition(e)
>> >    }, "At arpack.c:944 : ARPACK error, No shifts could be applied during a cycle of the Implicitly restarted Arnoldi iteration. One possibility is to increase the size of NCV relative to NEV",
>> >        quote(.Call("R_igraph_eigenvector_centrality", graph, directed, scale, weights,
>> >            options, PACKAGE = "igraph")))
>> >
>> > 2. Error: leading.eigenvector.community works ------------------------------
>> > (list) Objekt kann nicht nach 'double' umgewandelt werden
>> > 1: leading.eigenvector.community(g, callback = f) at test_leading.eigenvector.community.R:26
>> > 2: .Call("R_igraph_community_leading_eigenvector", graph, steps, weights, options, start,
>> >        callback, extra, env, environment(igraph.i.levc.arp), PACKAGE = "igraph")
>> > 3: .handleSimpleError(function (e)
>> >    {
>> >        e$calls <- head(sys.calls()[-seq_len(frame + 7)], -2)
>> >        signalCondition(e)
>> >    }, "(list) Objekt kann nicht nach 'double' umgewandelt werden", quote(.Call("R_igraph_community_leading_eigenvector",
>> >        graph, steps, weights, options, start, callback, extra, env, environment(igraph.i.levc.arp),
>> >        PACKAGE = "igraph")))
>> >
>> >
>> > Any hint how to run the test suite successfully without these errors?
>> >
>> > Kind regards
>> >
>> >       Andreas.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/R/r-cran-igraph/trunk/
>> >
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>>
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