Re: [Rd] Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 5 June 2005 at 12:48, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel has done a lot of work integrating the CRAN and other | R package collections with the Debian GNU/Linux package management | system. This rather neatly solves the non-CRAN dependency problems, at | least for Debian. Thanks

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-05 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >I think that some time ago there was a discussion of having a downloadable >file that oould be used to help.search through so that a relatively small >download and no package installation would allow a comprehensive >offline help.search of all CRAN packages. An online

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-05 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/5/05, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > > Of course, with disk sizes as they are now, it's not unreasonable to > > install all of the contributed CRAN packages on a PC. Then > > help.search() *will* do searches through them all. > > Some of

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-05 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Of course, with disk sizes as they are now, it's not unreasonable to > install all of the contributed CRAN packages on a PC. Then > help.search() *will* do searches through them all. Some of them are very specialized, and some of them have non-CRAN dependencies. I've do

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 5 June 2005 at 17:31, Peter Dalgaard wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Jim raises good points, as do the replies. On the topic of '500+ and | > growing', let me add my pet peeve: It is mighty impossible to know /what/ | > changed /when/ in CRANland. | > | > Being De

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-05 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jim raises good points, as do the replies. On the topic of '500+ and > growing', let me add my pet peeve: It is mighty impossible to know /what/ > changed /when/ in CRANland. > > Being Debian maintainer for a fair number of packages, I owe users of

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Jim raises good points, as do the replies. On the topic of '500+ and growing', let me add my pet peeve: It is mighty impossible to know /what/ changed /when/ in CRANland. Being Debian maintainer for a fair number of packages, I owe users of those packages timely updates. But the best I can do is