On 14 December 2010 at 14:55, Ross Boylan wrote: | What is the relation between the cran2deb repository, | http://debian.cran.r-project.org/, and the debian repositories at CRAN, | http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/? I've studied the pages and | this list, but am unsure I've got it right.
There is none, really, apart from the fact that both are concerned with getting R software onto Debian systems. | My understanding is that cran2deb had almost all packages, targets | testing, and currently is only supported for i386. And is currently not operating while a redesign/rewrite takes place. Hth, Dirk | It appears the debian repo at CRAN provides backports of the core Debian | packages (which include R as well as R packages) only, for i386 and | amd64. | | And then there's Debian backports, which should be ignored for R? | | Is that right? | | Concretely, if I'm on Debian stable amd64 and want an R package not | available from the official Debian distro, what are my choices? | I think I need to build from source (the package, not the whole of R). | | If I pull a backported version of R into my system, could I also use | cran2deb (if willing to accept the archive being stale)? | | Thanks. | | P.S. This is not a question about the need for build-dependencies if I'm | building packages from source. I (think I) understand that. | | _______________________________________________ | R-SIG-Debian mailing list | [email protected] | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
