Re: r-pkg-team page on wiki.d.o.

2018-01-10 Thread Johannes Ranke
-pkg-team page on wiki.debian.org: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/r-pkg-team > > Please feel free, to correct, expand, ... > > Charles -- Johannes Ranke Wissenschaftlicher Berater https://jrwb.de/contact

Re: Bug#868558: Would you please not upload new r-* packages until transition is finalised (Re: r-api-3.4)

2017-10-12 Thread Johannes Ranke
Am Donnerstag, 12. Oktober 2017, 12:01:14 CEST schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > So we did this 71 times, but stopped 4+ years ago. Not sure what got the > toolchain coughing, but I guess we could try again. texi2dvi used to trip over ~ in path names, so for locally building backports we used to

Re: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-19 Thread Johannes Ranke
Am Dienstag, 19. September 2017, 07:40:19 CEST schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > On 19 September 2017 at 14:15, Johannes Ranke wrote: > | > But you escalated it > | > | Mhm. I reported a bug with severity "normal". Maybe the language I used > | was > | too dram

Re: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-19 Thread Johannes Ranke
> But you escalated it Mhm. I reported a bug with severity "normal". Maybe the language I used was too dramatic? > And the net effect is no current R in testing for a year. Really not a good > outcome. This could still be overcome by introducing versioned Breaks, that could be removed then

Re: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-19 Thread Johannes Ranke
Am Montag, 18. September 2017, 10:39:02 CEST schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > On 18 September 2017 at 22:41, Charles Plessy wrote: > | Hello everybody, > | > | I just wanted to relay the information that some R packages will need a > | rebuild after the next upgrade of R. (see the email forwarded

Re: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-18 Thread Johannes Ranke
for > basic R objects > (https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/ALTREP/ALTREP.html outlines the > framework). Merging the remainder of the framework should not > introduce more binary changes and is expected to occur in the next few > months. > > Best, > > luke -- Johannes Ranke Wissenschaftlicher Berater https://jrwb.de/contact

Re: statistics: who maintains R packages in Debian (was: Re: Debhelper for R packages)

2016-10-19 Thread Johannes Ranke
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/12/msg02332.html Nice, I added a link to the Debian page on CRAN. I especially liked the "unprecedented growth" of CRAN and BioConductor that took place in 2003... Johannes

R 3.3.0 for Debian jessie on the way to CRAN, not for wheezy

2016-05-04 Thread Johannes Ranke
Dear all, I have just completed the backport of the newly released R 3.3.0 to Debian jessie for the CRAN repository, together with the usual update of the other (recommended) packages supplied there. It will hit the CRAN mirrors shortly. For wheezy, I do not plan to backport R 3.3.0, as this

Re: Backporting R

2016-04-26 Thread Johannes Ranke
Am Montag, 25. April 2016, 23:02:22 schrieb Andreas Tille: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 07:39:23PM +0200, Johannes Ranke wrote: > > > 1. I'll create > > > > > >https://git.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/r-base.git > > Done. V