[R-sig-Debian] A guide to R packages for Ubuntu

[Dominique Belhachemi]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 30 July 2012 at 15:51, Dominique Belhachemi wrote:
> | Hi everyone,
> |
> | I am using the backports from
> | http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/lucid/ on Lucid and would
> | like to create a bunch of additional r-cran packages on my workstation.
> |
> | Where can I find the latest scripts to automatically create those
> | packages? Is https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/cran2deb/ still
> | up-to-date?
>
> For Ubuntu, your best bet is Michael's PPA.  AFAIK it covers "a large number"
> of package but does not quite have complete CRAN coverage.  See
>
>     https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/c2d4u
>
>
> For Debian, the less-well-known but equally impressive effort is by Don. See
>
>     http://debian-r.debian.net/
>
>
> Our old cran2deb codebase is still there and at the core of both of these,
> but they essentially branches or "v3.0" implementations.
>

Thanks Dirk,

http://debian-r.debian.net/ is what I need for Debian.

For Ubuntu, Michael's PPA is huge, but contains only 1 package for
Lucid. So I will be using Don's github script's to re-build the
packages I need.

Thanks
-Dominique