On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:14:04PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 01:39:23PM -0500, Michael Friendly wrote: > > Should I just delete the cran.r-project.org line > > above, > > I think so. Plus, if you already point to Debian unstable, CRAN has nothing > you wouldn't have otherwise. > > > or are there debian R packages elsewhere on CRAN that I should > > include instead? > > Not that I know of. > > In the past, CRAN had current Debian packages of R itself for Debian > flavours other than unstable which typically has the most current R version > right at release time. However, migration to testing can take time so the we > sometime kept the same . And for stable we used to have volunteer-donated > rebuilds of the current R. This has gotten progressively more difficult as > Debian stable got older and older, and process of creating the R packages > started to take advantage of facilities to available to the versions of the > tools in stable.
Not sure if this is still relevant, but the backport I made has been apt-getable from this address for a while: deb http://people.debian.org/~cts/debian stable/ I'd prefer if this where integrated in CRAN, but I don't think I can make that directory available via rsync (unless you are a debian developer). Probably the debian server can handle the extra load for a few people still running Debian/stable. I should be able to keep the packages current, but not necessarily within a day, like Dirk manages to do. Christian ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
