2009/7/13 Michael Rutter <ma...@psu.edu> > 1. Are there any negatives going from an install.packages("foo") > approach using R then switching to an apt-get install r-cran-foo > method of installing packages? If I install a deb package on top of > an R installed package, will there be issues?
This should be the same as installing the package twice via R CMD INSTALL; I don't expect any issues but I cannot guarantee that I have not forgotten something. > 2. What will it take to do this for Ubuntu? Are we going to need a > (virtual) machine for each release or can this be done under chroot > jails on one server? I think, though have never got very far, that differences in package naming will be the main technical problem with supporting Ubuntu in a similar fashion, assuming re-use of the excellent Debian tools (pbuilder, mini-dinstall, etc) with a different set of base packages. Each release (i.e., debian i386 testing) requires a chroot environment: it could all be done on one machine. We simply use pbuilder. Maybe you would not want to do this for too many releases (bandwidth, disk space, cpu time). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org