[R-sig-Fedora] R-devel going away
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at clemson.edu
Fri Oct 24 03:37:26 CEST 2008
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 19:41 +0100, José Matos wrote:
> On Thursday 23 October 2008 19:22:07 James Antill wrote:
> > Well it kinda fits the "people expect foo-core + additions" _assuming_
> > CRAN is a requirement, but really why don't we just package more of the
> > R modules so CRAN usage isn't a requirement?
>
> There are more than 1500 modules (the have been growing at an exponential rate
> in the last years). So while we would like to see more R packages in Fedora in
> are not even near to have a reasonable subset of R packaged.
>
> So for the moment CRAN is really a requirement to use R in Fedora.
This situation seems to cry out for a solution like cpan2rpm for the
Perl Archive.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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