Yeah, it seems like maybe the cran2deb stuff is not quite ready for prime time?
It's a shame because we are making .deb packages for everything we develop internally, and I'd like to be able to indicate where R or some subset of it is a dependency. On Mar 22, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > Hi Scott, > > I like apt-get and dpkg. > > They made administering my Debian box much more > convenient. > > However, I was surprised some time ago to see that > Debian's package management technology was failing > to keep up with new releases of R packages. > > It seemed to me that R's packages were evolving > faster than Debian's archives were updated. > > I had to used R's built in package management > tool. > > If I recall correctly, it's named something like > update_package() or update_packages() and > it downloads new R code from CRAN. > > If you haven't already considered R's built in > package management, you may want to try it. > > I hope that helps, > Kingsley _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
