useR! 2008

[José Abílio Matos]

Hi,
	I am writing this from Dortmund, at the useR! 2008 conference
http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/useR-2008/

	I will have a talk tomorrow about the interaction between R and Fedora. It is 
a 15 minutes session so there is not much time to expand. I will present 
Fedora and it interacts with R. There are several issues that are common to 
the relation between Fedora and languages like perl, python, latex or R.

	I will also take the opportunity to hear feedback from several types of users 
regarding the state of R in Fedora. If there is anything relevant I will 
report back to this list.

	I have asked pingou (I hope I can use this) to write to the list with the new 
releases of his package as it would be nice that package automatically in 
Fedora using yum.

	Regards,

PS: In case you are wondering why I took so long to send this message to the 
list, believe that it is a long story that involves time shortage. :-)
-- 
José Abílio

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

José Matos wrote:
>  Hi,
>  	I am writing this from Dortmund, at the useR! 2008 conference
>  http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/useR-2008/ 
Nice :)
>  
>  	I will have a talk tomorrow about the interaction between R and Fedora. It is 
>  a 15 minutes session so there is not much time to expand. I will present 
>  Fedora and it interacts with R. There are several issues that are common to 
>  the relation between Fedora and languages like perl, python, latex or R. 
That's great :) Do you have the slides of the presentation ? I would be 
interested to know how you presented things.
>  
>  	I will also take the opportunity to hear feedback from several types of users 
>  regarding the state of R in Fedora. If there is anything relevant I will 
>  report back to this list. 
I would like to know how the think on the difference between suggests 
and depends dependences of a library. (I still have in my mind the 
Bioconductor issue).
Do they install both ?
Do they care about the suggests ?
Do they want them ?

>  
>  	I have asked pingou (I hope I can use this) to write to the list with the new 
>  releases of his package as it would be nice that package automatically in 
>  Fedora using yum. 
I have asked for a project on the fedorahosted.org, I'll let you know.

Thanks,
Regards,
Pierre

[Alex Lancaster]

> >>>> "P" == Pierre-Yves   writes: 
[...]

P> José Matos wrote:

> > I will also take the opportunity to hear feedback from several
> > types of users regarding the state of R in Fedora. If there is
> > anything relevant I will report back to this list. 
P> I would like to know how the think on the difference between
P> suggests and depends dependences of a library. (I still have in my
P> mind the Bioconductor issue).  Do they install both ?  Do they care
P> about the suggests ?  Do they want them ?

Hi José,

Just curious if you got any feedback at userR! from R developers
regarding Fedora packaging (e.g. Bioconductor etc.)

Alex

[José Abílio Matos]

On Friday 02 January 2009 23:45:32 Alex Lancaster wrote:
>  Hi José,
>
>  Just curious if you got any feedback at userR! from R developers
>  regarding Fedora packaging (e.g. Bioconductor etc.) 
Nope. I met and talked with Martyn, Peter Dalgaard and Marc Schwartz that are 
also subscribers from r-sig-fedora(a)r-project.org.

>  Alex 
-- 
José Abílio