[Fedora-r-devel-list] R2rpm call for tester

[Pierre-Yves]

On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 10:25 +0100, Pierre-Yves wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 15:14 +0000, José Matos wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 March 2010 16:26:34 Pierre-Yves wrote:
> > > Just because the question might shows-up, the option -d (build the
> > > missing dependencies of the package) is not implemented yet ;-)
> > > 
> > > Pierre
> > 
> > If I am not asking too much it would be nice if r2rpm could fetch the sources 
> > directly from CRAN if we pass only the package name (or with a special option 
> > for that matter).
> > 
> I have this idea in my mind for some time, I will look into this :-)
Actually I need this for building the dependencies of a given package.
At the moment I am thinking to parse the html page of the different
repository to extract the url of the sources. 

Would anyone know a better way to do it ?

Thanks,

Pierre