Hi Gordon, I realised to late that you also ITPed r-cran-r6 and issued another ITP for this package. I noticed as well that you opened another "versioned" ITP as bug #818622 which is a bit unusual, thought.
I intended to package this as well for the Debian Med team. Since your ITP was first I cloned the Git repository at collab-maint, did the changes I considered sensible and sponsored the upload. I would recommend to maintain R packages in a more fitting team - for instance Debian Science. If you have no idea what to do feel free to ask me. Kind regards and thanks for your initial work on the package Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de