Re: packaging an alternative R

2015-09-28 Thread Jonathon Love
hi, i'll start by responding to andreas email, and hopefully move on to dirk's once this is done. On 25/09/2015 3:29 pm, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 02:35:25PM +0200, Jonathon Love wrote: >> hi, >> >> i'm wanting to create a deb package for a parallel R installation. >> >> the

Re: packaging an alternative R

2015-09-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 28 September 2015 at 13:15, Jonathon Love wrote: | essentially, JASP depends on package A. package A gets updated in a way | that breaks compatibility with us (this has happened to us with three | different R packages making breaking changes between releases in the | last couple of years,

Re: packaging an alternative R

2015-09-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Also: http://debian-r.debian.net tends to have current packages. You could (programmatically !!) compare the state of required CRAN packages within Debian (my very small RcppAPT package on CRAN interfaces apt), compare to what available.packages() in R says and maybe warn on discrepancy. Dirk