Hi Dirk and Charles, What a _beautiful_ project! This a giant step forward.
Thanks! Piet On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 03:44:21PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Announcing cran2deb: 1700+ Debian packages from almost all of CRAN > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Last Friday's presentation at UseR! 2009 was the first really public mention > of 'cran2deb'. It provides Debian packages of all of CRAN. It started as > Charles' project from last year's Google Summer of Code, was further extended > by us over the last year. > > We currently build for the testing distribution and the i386 and amd64 > architectures. This is now publically useable and we welcome wider testing > by Debian users. We hope to extend this to Ubuntu during the summer or fall. > > I include what I blogged earlier (which you may have seen via Planet Debian > and/or Planet R). This also contains the /etc/apt/sources.list entries: > > > cran2deb: Would you like 1700+ new Debian / R packages ? > > As I mentioned in my [8]quick write-up of UseR 2009, one of my talks > was about cran2deb: a system to turn (essentially) all [1]CRAN packages > into directly apt-get-able binary packages. > > This is essentially a '2.0' version of earlier work with Steffen > Moeller and David Vernazobres which we had presented in 2007. Then, the > approach was top-down and monolithic which started to show its limits. > This time, the idea was to borrow the successful bottom-up approach of > my [2]CRANberries feed. > > The bulk of the work was done by Charles Blundell as part of his Google > Summer of Code 2008 project which I had suggested and mentored. After > that project had concluded, we both felt we should continue with it and > bring it to 'production'. The CRAN hosts provided us with a (virtual > Xen) machine to build on, and we are now ready to more publically > announce the availability of the repositories for i386 and amd64: > > deb http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-i386 testing/ > > and > > deb http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64 testing/ > > A few more details are provided in [3]our presentation slides. We look > forward to hearing from folks using; the r-sig-debian list may be a > good venue for this. > > > References > 1. http://cran.r-project.org/ > 2. http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries > 3. http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/useR2009cran2deb.pdf > > > Please direct questions to r-sig-debian (which has subscriber-only posts) or > debian-science. > > Regards, Dirk and Charles > > -- > Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian