[R-sig-Debian] Request for jags package to be added to CRAN Debian/Ubuntu archives

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 18 April 2011 at 09:14, Douglas Bates wrote:
| May I request that Dirk's package for jags be added to the CRAN
| archives for Debian and Ubuntu?
| 
| Installing the rjags package for R requires specific versions of jags
| to be present on the system.  The current version of rjags requires
| jags version 2.2.0 or later but the version on the Ubuntu archives at
| Canonical (i.e. not the CRAN archives) is 2.1.0-2
| 
| I can always install Dirk's package on packages.debian.org but it
| would be handy to have a version for Ubuntu.

Michael is so good that he anticipated this request several months ago:

edd at max:~$ wajig policy jags
jags:
  Installed: 2.2.0-1maverick0
  Candidate: 2.2.0-1maverick0
  Version table:
 *** 2.2.0-1maverick0 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rrutter/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.1.0-2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe amd64 Packages
edd at max:~$ 


Kidding aside, he also uses it and hence packaged it. It is on his Launchpad
PPA which is now recommended for folks like you and me (and everybody else
who wants to help test alpha/beta/rc).  Michael had felt that jags was 'too
specialised' to be put on CRAN; this email may change his mind.  Either way,
you are just one edit and one apt-get or wajig away from it.

Cheers, Dirk

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Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com