On 8 October 2016 at 20:32, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: | On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 12:08:50PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > On 8 October 2016 at 17:45, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: | > | Otoh: currently R stuff is mainly maintained within debian-science and | > | debian-med. | > | > Well: the R package itself, addons like ess, rpy2, rkward, ... , and several | > dozen r-cran-packages maintained are not. | | You're right, and I knew that. The word "mainly" might have been not the right | one; sorry about that. | | I got curious about who exactly maintains how many r-cran packages currently in | testing/stretch, came up with this quick and (very!) crude hack: | | joostvb@banach:~% for p in $( apt-cache search --names-only r-cran | \ | cut -d' ' -f1 ); do echo -n "$p "; apt-cache show $p | grep Maintainer; done | \ | cut -d' ' -f3- | cut -d\< -f2 | sed 's/^/</' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | | 1 <[email protected]> | 1 <[email protected]> | 1 <[email protected]> | 1 <[email protected]> | 2 <[email protected]> | 7 <[email protected]> | 19 <[email protected]> | 105 <[email protected]> | 130 <[email protected]> | 137 <[email protected]>
That's a very good start; you may also want to look at 'apt-cache rdepends r-base-core' (and maybe r-base) to get the r-bioc-* and r-other-* packages. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]

