[Fedora-r-devel-list] R2spec new release

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue Sep 2 15:36:12 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 18:12 +0100, Dan Bolser wrote:

> Now is there any way to cross check these against what R actually has
> installed? I am trying to think about ways that the R-installer could
> be used in combination with the packages... or is the idea to package
> the whole of CRAN? Where would such a repo be maintained? How would it
> be kept in sync with CRAN?

Well, I'm certainly not so bored as to want to repackage all of CRAN. :)

I think the safest thing is to query R for what it has installed, and
not be concerned about whether it was built manually from CRAN, or
provided pre-built by Fedora.

~spot




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