On 16 November 2011 at 17:17, Paul Menzel wrote:
| Package: r-base
| Version: 2.14.0-1
| Severity: wishlist
|
| Dear Debian folks,
|
|
| wanting to use `rbenchmark` which is a lot of times mentioned in the
| posts of Dirk’s blog [1] what is the recommended way. Could that be
| documented please? That would be quite useful. At least for me.
That is basic R usage, see e.g. the 'R Installation and Administration'
manual that comes with R (and which Debian provides to you in the packages
r-doc-pdf pdf versions
r-doc-html
r-doc-info texinfo verions
| The description of the package already states the following.
|
| Additionally, over thousand extension "packages" are available from
CRAN, the
| Comprehensive R Archive Network, many also as Debian packages, named
| 'r-cran-<name>'.
|
| Would the following addition be useful?
|
| If they are not you have to manually install them using
| `install.packages()`.
|
| Adding that to `README.Debian` would also be helpful in my opinion.
|
| The main question then is though, what happens if that manually
| installed packages suddently is packaged for Debian?
That's an open issue which has been discussed many times on the r-sig-debian
list (== R Special Interest Group mailing list for 'R use on Debian / Ubuntu')
which is the best place for your question. The list is hosted at ETH Zuerich
just like the other R lists; you need to subscribe to post (or use Gmane or
Nabble).
Not really a bug, so closing this. Adding / changing README.Debian is not a
bad idea but what you suggest is a little too basic.
Dirk
(R maintainer on Debian and listowner for r-sig-debian)
| Thanks a million,
|
| Paul
|
|
| [1] http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/
|
| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: wheezy/sid
| APT prefers unstable
| APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
| Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
|
| Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
| Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
|
| Versions of packages r-base depends on:
| ii r-base-core 2.14.0-1
| ii r-recommended 2.14.0-1
|
| Versions of packages r-base recommends:
| ii r-base-html 2.14.0-1
| ii r-doc-html 2.14.0-1
|
| Versions of packages r-base suggests:
| pn ess <none>
| pn r-doc-info | r-doc-pdf <none>
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