[R-SIG-Mac]fink info files for R packages

[Jan de Leeuw]

fink.sourceforge.net has R-1.4.1 as packages r-base and r-recommended
(mained by Jeff Whitaker, jsw@cdc.noaa.give)

One of our projects is to put as many R packages as possible into our
local fink tree, i.e. create /sw/fink/dists/local/R. I am not sure
if we should burden fink with 200 additional packages. Although they
all could go in libs/rpacks. Anyway, this directory
will contain info and perhaps patch files for the CRAN and other
packages. If packages have the appropriate R structure, then the
fink info file simply is, for example, acepack-1.3-1.info

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Package: acepack
Version: 1.3
Revision: 1
Depends: r-base
Source: http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/%n_%v.tar.gz
SourceDirectory: %n
CompileScript: echo "no compile script"
InstallScript:  R CMD INSTALL %b
Description: ace() and avas() for selecting regression transformations
License: GPL
Maintainer: Jan de Leeuw <deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu>
Homepage: http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html#acepack
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If packages are not packaged appropriately, other info files will be 
needed
(with the usual configure and make commands, with CFLAGS, or with
R CMD INSTALL parameters).

We can group packages by making a virtual package which does not install
anything but depends on its component packages (such as recommended,
CRAN, Lindsay, OmegaHat). Currently, r-recommended  has all the R CMD
INSTALL commands in the InstallScript section, but this makes it harder 
to
patch and document individual packages.
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Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics;
US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
phone (310)-825-9550;  fax (310)-206-5658;  email: deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu
homepage: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw
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