On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Andreas Tille wrote:
Hi Faheem,
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 01:19:02AM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote:
I never got a reply to this email.
I hoped that my answer at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2013/08/msg00011.html
would have clarified that you could perfectly follow Debian Med
policy to add the R packages in question. Charles also hat
answered here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/08/msg00166.html
I hope that my document about *.rda packages here
https://wiki.debian.org/GNU_R
might cause some twist in ftpmasters mind. I recently had uploaded
r-bioc-graph which also included *.rda files but it was rejected for a
different reason because some copyright statement was missing.
My specific question is:
I'm using the following R packages, which are not currently in
Debian, as described in the email below.
yaml
gridExtra
RPostgreSQL
tikzDevice
RJSONIO
If I want to get them into Debian via debian-med, what should I do?
Just follow Debian Med policy as suggested previously and make sure you
are checking out the various other examples of R packages we just have
in VCS.
Would putting the packaging into some debian-med repository be a
good start? Thanks,
Yes, please do. This would be very welcome.
Thanks, Andreas, that is very helpful, particularly the
https://wiki.debian.org/GNU_R link.
Question 1: tikzDevice was removed from CRAN for technical reasons, and
the package development appears to have stalled, but it is still a very
useful (indeed, indispensible for its purpose) package. Will this be a
problem re Debian packaging?
Question 2:
http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html#repositories only
talks about Subversion and Git. Given that choice, I'd definitely go with
Git, but is Mercurial out as an option?
I actually followed up on r-cran-munsell. I think Benjamin Eikel had the
ball last, but didn't get a very helpful response from the last people he
talked to. Benjamin, what is your next move on this?
Regards, Faheem
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