Dear Michael, I was looking up the status of the cran2deb effort and notice that you now have a PPA where new packages are landing and being built for Ubuntu. It looks like this is still a work in progress, but is already a fantastic resource for me and I hope it is something that you can continue to operate.
I'm now installing many of these packages but some things I need are missing. I'm hoping I can get these built and contribute my results and any other bug fixes I make back to you. As the Bio-Linux maintainer and a contributor to Debian-Med I'm very familiar with DEB building and general Ubuntu hacking. I'm not an R user but I know the basics (and I'm supporting several big time R users here who can help me out). As far as I'm aware, the packages on cran2deb4ubuntu will have been built from a selection of auto-generated sources spat out from cran2deb. There used to be a page where these could be downloaded but I can't find it any more (or am I just going blind?). Is there somewhere I can snag the source packages used for the PPA? Should I just download and run cran2deb myself to obtain them? Also, what's the best way to contribute back to you? FYI, the first packages on my hitlist are (mostly from bioconductor): pcaMethods (should be easy) bitseq (I just packaged the standalone version - https://launchpad.net/~tbooth/+archive/ppa1/+packages) samr biomaRt (probably a PITA, not looked yet) Cheers, TIM -- Tim Booth <[email protected]> NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Maclean Bldg, Benson Lane Crowmarsh Gifford Wallingford, England OX10 8BB http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk +44 1491 69 2705 _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
