[R] Where has the Debian respository gone?

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Fri Nov 19 00:05:49 CET 2004


Chris,

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 08:21:04PM +0000, Chris Evans wrote:
> DE> More than advice, we need a volunteer to "backport" the current R package(s)
> DE> for Debian to the Debian stable distribution. As I said, testing and
> DE> unstable are taken care of (and yes, testing is still lagging because of the
> DE> now much more formal interdependence of packages; R 2.0.* will appears once
> DE> all dependent packages are available on all architectures)
> 
> I'm sure this is in itself proof that I'm not the person to do it but
> can you say a bit more about what's involved Dirk?  I run a pretty low
[..]
> Any chance I can be useful?  Could I team up with someone who really
> knows what s/he is doing but doesn't use Debian stable and work this
> together?
> 
> Let me know, I'd love to put something very direct back into the R project.

Thanks a bunch -- I'll follow up off-list!

Dirk

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