[R] CDs for R?
Dirk Eddelbuettel
edd at debian.org
Wed Nov 17 15:54:41 CET 2004
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 08:25:54AM +0200, Jari Oksanen wrote:
>
> On 16 Nov 2004, at 23:39, (Ted Harding) wrote:
> Now comes my suggestion to CRAN maintainer: this all would be easier,
> if you would produce a CD image file ('iso') that would contain a
> snapshot of the latest version: main binaries, all contributed
> packages, and docs. Getting somebody to help downloading this iso would
> be much easier than trying to collect all first and then make up your
> own cd image.
It's volunteer effort, so someone actually has to do this. Can you help?
> Actually, only Windows and Mac users need binary versions of packages.
> The former because they don't have tools to install from source, the
> latter because they don't know that they have the tools (being command
> line challenged).
>
> To Dirk Eddelbuettel: Yes indeed, Ubuntu gives human face to Debian and
> is a much more pleasant experience. However, changing OS for R may be
> asking too much. Further, Ubuntu/Debian comes with a tiny and biased
> selection of packages, and if that's not your kind of bias, you have
> got to go to the Internet again. Further, Ubuntu (and other Linuxes)
Again, it reflects the interests of the volunteers involved. If you want to
see other things done, come join in and do them.
> lag behind R. The current Ubuntu release comes with R 1.9.1, and it
> won't be upgraded but in the next release scheduled for April 2005 (and
> just in the same time as the next R, so that Ubuntu will be one R
> version off again). I guess the lag is even worse in packages.
This actually requires a response. Here is a quick log (from my mail folder)
about what new packages (of mine, can't speak for others) got uploaded
recently -- in most cases, this is on the day of the source release, so the
lag would be close to zero.
575 Nov 08 Debian Installe ( 20) rpy_0.4.0-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED
576 Nov 09 Debian Installe ( 14) strucchange_1.2.7-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED
577 Nov 11 Debian Installe ( 12) cluster_1.9.6-3_i386.changes ACCEPTED
578 Nov 11 Debian Installe ( 12) survival_2.15-2_i386.changes ACCEPTED
579 Nov 12 Debian Installe ( 26) octave2.1_2.1.62-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED
580 Nov 12 Debian Installe ( 12) cluster_1.9.6-4_i386.changes ACCEPTED
581 Nov 12 Debian Installe ( 14) mgcv_1.1.8-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED
582 Nov 12 Debian Installe ( 14) tseries_0.9.24-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED
583 Nov 12 Debian Installe ( 14) lattice_0.10.14-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED
584 Nov 12 Debian Installe ( 12) mgcv_1.1.8-2_i386.changes ACCEPTED
585 Nov 13 Debian Installe ( 14) dbd-odbc_1.13-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED
586 Nov 13 Debian Installe ( 14) ole-storage-lite_0.14-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED
587 Nov 13 Debian Installe ( 12) semidef-oct_2.2-21_i386.changes ACCEPTED
588 Nov 14 Debian Installe ( 15) wajig_2.0.13-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED
589 Nov 14 Debian Installe ( 14) sm_2.0.13-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED
590 Nov 14 Debian Installe ( 12) vr_7.2.10-2_i386.changes ACCEPTED
591 Nov 15 Debian Installe ( 34) r-base_2.0.1-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED
592 Nov 15 Debian Installe ( 24) gretl_1.3.0-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED
593 Nov 16 Debian Installe ( 14) survival_2.16-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED
594 Nov 17 Debian Installe ( 14) wajig_2.0.14-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED
I could go back further if you want.
Now, if and when these get pressed into a release by Debian or Ubuntu I do
not control. Which is, I guess, why we're discussing archive snapshots in
this thread.
Hth, Dirk
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