[R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu cran2deb PPA

[Mathieu Basille]

Dear Don,

Good to hear that the Debian R Package Archive is up to date! I wasn't 
using it because last time I checked, there was still many packages missing 
(at least packages useful to me). But that was a long time ago. Following 
this discussion, I just upgraded, and almost every package I need from CRAN 
is now present and up to date! The installation takes less time than it 
needs to say it, it all worked like a charm!

Now, if this is an appropriate place for such request, I'd like to add the 
rgeos package [1] to the two already mentioned by Tim. I also have problems 
to install rgdal and sqlitemap, which are listed in the Debian R Package 
Archive [2,3], but were unavailable to me through aptitude -- maybe an 
architecture issue? Both rgeos and rgdal have somewhat complicated 
dependencies... Here is my system info:

$ cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 \n \l

$ head /proc/version
Linux version 3.2.0-4-amd64 (debian-kernel at lists.debian.org) (gcc version 
4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.2.35-2

Please let me know if any more information is needed, and thanks for this 
great work!

Sincerely,
Mathieu.


[1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgeos/index.html

[2] http://debian-r.debian.net/pool/main/r/r-cran-rgdal/

[3] http://debian-r.debian.net/pool/main/r/r-cran-sqlitemap/


Le 02/11/2013 12:27 PM, Tim Booth a écrit :
> Hi Don,
>
>> I'm trying to keep it up to date, but there are definitely some
>> packages missing. If there are particular ones that you need which
>> aren't built, let me know, and I can go through and get them built.
>
> Thanks for the offer.  The ones I am after just now are:
>
> pcaMethods
> bitseq
>
> I think these will fail to build due to missing dependencies or similar.
> That's fine, I can fix the builds and package up dependencies.  I'm just
> after the auto-generated control/rules/copyright/etc. so I don't have to
> write these from scratch.
>
> And if you want me to contribute back then just let me know how you
> prefer me to do that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> TIM
>
> On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 17:02 +0000, Don Armstrong wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Feb 2013, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>>> On 11 February 2013 at 08:41, Don Armstrong wrote:
>>> | On Mon, 11 Feb 2013, Tony Travis wrote:
>>> | > On 11/02/13 14:40, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>>> | > >[...]
>>> | > >Do you guys know about Don Armstrong's builder?  Effectively the successor to
>>> | > >my cran2deb efforts:
>>> | > >
>>> | > >    http://debian-r.debian.net
>>> | >
>>> | > Thanks for the heads-up about Don's builder.
>>> |
>>> | I'm trying to keep it up to date, but there are definitely some
>>> | packages missing. If there are particular ones that you need which
>>> | aren't built, let me know, and I can go through and get them built.
>>>
>>> I know how much labor it is to keep this up, especially with the growth at
>>> CRAN...
>>>
>>> Can you add a regexpy call that just prints a date to the homepage, or
>>> updates a 'LAST_RUN_AT.txt' file or something?
>>
>> Sure. It actually has most of the Debian stack
>> (dak,sbuild,wanna-build) running behind it, but I'll have it put the
>> date of newest uploads of source packages on the home page... and
>> maybe a list of what those packages are.
>>
>>
>> Don Armstrong
>>
>

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