[R-sig-Debian] [R] can update.packages Debian package files?

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Sun Nov 5 04:02:11 CET 2006


Hi Tamas

That was quick :)  Thanks for carrying it over.

On 4 November 2006 at 21:35, Tamas K Papp wrote:
| On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:14:59PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| Dirk,
| 
| > It has been discussed not that long ago on r-sig-debian, feel free to
| > subscribe there as you may find the list useful for all matters Debian and R.
| 
| I did, so I am replying here.  Thanks for letting me know about this list.

Pleasure.
| 
| > Now, for added bonus, the script 'update.r' in the littler package (version
| > 0.0.8 or later) does all that for you. So after an initial
| 
| littler is simply amazing -- the power of R as a scripting
| language... overwhelming.  Thank you for packaging that!

Well, and if I may, co-writing it :) But full kudos goes to Jeff for starting
it in the first place.

We could do with more examples. If you come up with simple littler examples,
please do send them along.

Cheers, Dirk

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