On Thursday, I read Karim's most recent article with Ned Gulley called, "The Determinants of Individual Performance and Collective Value in Private-Collective Software Innovation". Naturally, this wasn't a wiki-like contest, but there sure was plenty of reuse (R is an established platform), code recombination (Chris + Will + Koen + Mine). In this case, however, I suppose you could say the goal was to increase the "free-rider" problem. That, or I just think it's cool to have a portable R-based gadget. :-)
Ps, totally random aside, this graph is awesome, it proves that multiple people working together for a common good get a lot farther than any one person by themselves (obviously this is true, but this is quantitative, numerical evidence):
On Friday, I posted a quick blog article about porting R to the Beagle & Angstrom platform. Chris thought it would be very difficult, I thought it would be impossible, and so I offered $1,000 to anyone that could help.
On Saturday, I got about a dozen emails, and 3 folks who said they were going to try (4 if you include me, since I figured maybe I could do it after all).
On Sunday, I got an email from Koen with the following picture, and code screenshot printout:
Total elapsed time since blog post: less than 36 hoursNaturally, I wanted to make sure I could replicate it myself, and so I was able to run the following commands on the BeagleBoard (with a wifi internet connection up and running):
wget http://www.liquidware.org/r_2.11.1-r0.5_armv7a.ipk
opkg install http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/2008/ipk/glibc/armv7a/base/tk-dev_8.4.19-r0.1_armv7a.ipk
opkg install http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/2008/ipk/glibc/armv7a/base/gfortran_4.3.1-r11.1_armv7a.ipk
opkg update
opkg upgrade
reboot
opkg install -force-depends ./r_2.11.1-r0.5_armv7a.ipk
opkg bash
And then I popped it up, and got this:
2shay, Koen :-)
UPDATE: I just Googled around, and there was apparently also another possible solution, cooked up by HNS, although technically not doable with Angstrom (which is critical given some of the drivers and whatnot I've patched into my version of Angstrom), it gets R up and running with Debian:
---Copied from the mailing list---
Does this qualify as well?
Install Debian Lenny, u-boot and a kernel on a SD card from
http://download.goldelico.com/ombeagle/20100715-lenny/
boot and login. Make sure the host works as a internet router.
Linux bb-debian 2.6.32 #48 PREEMPT Tue Jun 8 14:21:52 CEST 2010 armv7l
The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free
software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Fri Jul 23 12:48:05 2010 from 192.168.0.200
bb-debian:~# apt-get install r-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libgfortran3 libpaper-utils libpaper1 r-base-core r-cran-boot r-cran-
cluster r-cran-codetools r-cran-foreign r-cran-kernsmooth r-cran-
lattice r-cran-mgcv r-cran-nlme r-cran-rpart r-cran-survival r-cran-vr
r-recommended tk8.4
unzip zip
Suggested packages:
ess r-doc-info r-doc-pdf r-doc-html r-mathlib
Recommended packages:
r-base-html r-base-latex r-base-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libgfortran3 libpaper-utils libpaper1 r-base r-base-core r-cran-boot
r-cran-cluster r-cran-codetools r-cran-foreign r-cran-kernsmooth r-
cran-lattice r-cran-mgcv r-cran-nlme r-cran-rpart r-cran-survival r-
cran-vr r-recommended
tk8.4 unzip zip
0 upgraded, 20 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 18.2MB of archives.
After this operation, 64.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
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Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main libpaper1 1.1.23+nmu1 [21.9kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main libpaper-utils 1.1.23+nmu1 [18.3kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main zip 2.32-1 [110kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main unzip 5.52-12 [163kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main tk8.4 8.4.19-2 [1022kB]
Get:7 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main r-base-core 2.7.1-1+lenny1 [11.0MB]
Get:8 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main r-cran-boot 1.2.33-1 [458kB]
Get:9 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main r-cran-cluster 1.11.11-1 [343kB]
Get:10 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main r-cran-foreign 0.8.27-1 [154kB]
Get:11 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main r-cran-vr 7.2.42-1 [971kB]
Get:12 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main r-cran-kernsmooth 2.22.22-1 [51.7kB]
Get:13 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main r-cran-lattice 0.17-10-1 [598kB]
Get:14 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main r-cran-mgcv 1.4-1-1 [658kB]
Get:15 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main r-cran-nlme 3.1.89-1 [1346kB]
Get:16 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main r-cran-survival 2.34-1-1 [833kB]
Get:17 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main r-cran-rpart 3.1.41-1 [160kB]
Get:18 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main r-cran-codetools 0.2-1-1 [39.8kB]
Get:19 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main r-recommended 2.7.1-1+lenny1 [2208B]
Get:20 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main r-base 2.7.1-1+lenny1[29.7kB]
Fetched 18.2MB in 21s (842kB/ s)
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Selecting previously deselected package libgfortran3.
(Reading database ... 25829 files and directories currently installed.)
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cluster_1.11.11-1_armel.deb) ...
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Setting up libgfortran3 (4.3.2-1.1) ...
Setting up libpaper1 (1.1.23+nmu1) ...
Creating config file /etc/papersize with new version
Setting up libpaper-utils (1.1.23+nmu1) ...
Setting up zip (2.32-1) ...
Setting up unzip (5.52-12) ...
Setting up tk8.4 (8.4.19-2) ...
Setting up r-base-core (2.7.1-1+lenny1) ...
Setting R_PAPERSIZE_USER default to 'a4'
Creating config file /etc/R/Renviron with new version
Setting up r-cran-boot (1.2.33-1) ...
Setting up r-cran-cluster (1.11.11-1) ...
Setting up r-cran-foreign (0.8.27-1) ...
Setting up r-cran-vr (7.2.42-1) ...
Setting up r-cran-kernsmooth (2.22.22-1) ...
Setting up r-cran-lattice (0.17-10-1) ...
Setting up r-cran-mgcv (1.4-1-1) ...
Setting up r-cran-nlme (3.1.89-1) ...
Setting up r-cran-survival (2.34-1-1) ...
Setting up r-cran-rpart (3.1.41-1) ...
Setting up r-cran-codetools (0.2-1-1) ...
Setting up r-recommended (2.7.1-1+lenny1) ...
Setting up r-base (2.7.1-1+lenny1) ...
bb-debian:~# R
R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.
> x <- c(10.4, 5.6, 3.1, 6.4, 21.7)
> y <- c(x, 0, x)
> 1/x
[1] 0.09615385 0.17857143 0.32258065 0.15625000 0.04608295
> q()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
bb-debian:~# uname -a
Linux bb-debian 2.6.32 #48 PREEMPT Tue Jun 8 14:21:52 CEST 2010 armv7l
GNU/Linux
bb-debian:~# cat /proc/cpu
cat: /proc/cpu: Is a directory
bb-debian:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 696.20
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x1
CPU part : 0xc08
CPU revision : 3
Hardware : OMAP3 Beagle Board
Revision : 0020
Serial : 0000000000000000
bb-debian:~#
3 comments:
technically the last command you have to run is "R"
There's also another solution, which was discussed on the Beagle googlegroup mailing list using Debian Lenny, by HNS
Debian is still compiled for armv4t without floating point support, so R will be dreadfully slow.
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