On 28 October 2008 at 03:34, Arnaud Battistella wrote:
| Thanks a lot for your help! Just one last thing: how can we make sure
| not to have duplicate version of packages (Debian & CRAN) and how bad
| can this be?
That's two last things if my counting is right :)
a) We cannot avoid as the two `package systems' for R and Debian do not know
about each other. Just run
library()
in an R session and see. It simply runs down the list in R_SITE_LIBS and
checks all directories to generate the list of avoidable packages.
b) No issue at all. Worst case is probably that a package that is older
_may_ get found if the search abort on the first hit. I am not sure if
that is in fact the case though.
Integrating some Debian knowledge into install.packages() and
update.packages() would make for a nice project. Anyone interested ?
Dirk
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