Move the RPy package outside of the R package

[qed777]

We include the RPy spkg in the R spkg and install the former from the latter. It would be less potentially confusing to move RPy outside of R but make it depend on R and any other prerequisites in spkg/standard/deps.

The necessary changes to spkg/install and spkg/standard/deps are already there, but currently commented out. Apply the following patch to the Sage root repository to activate them:

attachment: trac_9906-Activate_separate_RPy_spkg.root-repo.patch

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spkg:

1. http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/r-2.14.0.p5.spkg (diff: attachment: r-2.14.0.p5.diff)
2. http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/rpy2-2.0.8.p0.spkg (diff: attachment: rpy2-2.0.8.p0.diff)

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Related: #3086 (closed as duplicate). See also #9668 and #9847 for what could or should be addressed, too. Previous R upgrade: #12057.

Depends on #13428
Depends on #13395

CC: @nexttime @kcrisman @vbraun @kini

Component: packages: standard

Keywords: r-project spkg

Author: Leif Leonhardy, Jeroen Demeyer

Reviewer: Karl-Dieter Crisman, John Palmieri

Merged: sage-5.4.beta1

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/9906

[nexttime]

comment:1

It would also allow independent updates and potentially improve compression.

[nexttime]

comment:2

When touching the R package, one should also consider #9847 (i.e. R environment variables potentially disturbing the build).

[nexttime]

comment:3

See this comment for another important reason.

[nexttime]

comment:4

(Having Rpy in R's spkg is the culprit of this build error.)

[nexttime]

comment:5

I've created a separate RPy 2.0.8.p1 spkg and an R 2.10.1.p5 (follow-up of p4 at #10016) spkg with the RPy spkg removed; both coming soon... (including updated deps and spkg/install)

I also cleaned up both packages a little, and tried to address #9847, too.

[sagetrac-drkirkby]

comment:6

Replying to @nexttime:

I've created a separate RPy 2.0.8.p1 spkg and an R 2.10.1.p5 (follow-up of p4 at #10016) spkg with the RPy spkg removed; both coming soon...

How soon is soon?

If you can make these available, it will help those that want to update the source code.

Dave