Hi Tony, On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 02:34:04PM +0000, Tony Travis wrote: > Thanks for all the work you've done to add the 'missing' packages!
You are welcome. > > Te other R packages > > > > r-bioc-bitseq: (ITP #892522) > > r-cran-aplpack: (ITP #892476) > > r-cran-samr: (ITP #892498) > > > > remain in new queue and will be processed hopefully soon. > > The packages *are* relevant to biology: > > BitSeq is for transcript expression analysis and differential expression > analysis of RNA-seq data, SAM is for analysis of microarray datas These two are just part of the med-bio task as you always can check here [1]. They are just not available for installation since they are in the new queue. > and the "aplpack" package is for plotting all sorts of biological results. Thanks for this information. Could you provide a patch for the package description[2] to reflect this fact a bit better. I'd love to provide thorough information to the users of the package and for sure I would add the package to med-bio once it becomes clear to the reader why it is there. I have in mind something like With this package you can plot <please add that exact sort of results here> > At present, Bio-Linux takes these from Michael Rutter's Ubuntu PPA: > > > https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/ubuntu/c2d4u Thanks but packaging R packages is so brain dead easy using dh-make-R - its probably more work to pick from there than firing up this script. However, please feel free to pick from there and make a list what might be missing in Debian. > Thanks again, You are welcome Andreas. [1] https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#r-bioc-bitseq https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#r-cran-samr [2] https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-aplpack/blob/master/debian/control -- http://fam-tille.de
