Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 21 August 2007 at 12:19, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | Hi Thomas, | | On 21 August 2007 at 19:02, Thomas Weber wrote: | | Hi, | | | | Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2007, 11:11 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: | | > E.g. a good example of how it's nice to have the code in one place (as | | > oppos

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Thomas, On 21 August 2007 at 19:02, Thomas Weber wrote: | Hi, | | Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2007, 11:11 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: | > E.g. a good example of how it's nice to have the code in one place (as | > opposed to dozens of debian/rules files) is that just recently I learned abo

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-21 Thread Thomas Weber
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2007, 11:11 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > E.g. a good example of how it's nice to have the code in one place (as > opposed to dozens of debian/rules files) is that just recently I learned about > a neat x11 framebuffer server wrapper, Which package is that? I mi

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Soeren, On 21 August 2007 at 11:20, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: | OK, I just had a look at r-cran-fseries, it is indeed a one-liner as you | said. So creating debian packages from cran-r-packages seems easy. What Yes. debian/rules just calls /usr/share/R/debian/r-cran.mk which has the required s

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Dirk Eddelbuettel dijo [Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:26:31PM -0500]: > > UseR! 2007 at Iowa State University, Ames, IA, August 8-10, 2007 > (...) Wow - Congratulations, this paper is quite interesting to me - partly because next week I will be presenting one quite similar to it ;-) http://vienna.yapc

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-21 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 20:15 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Hi Soeren, Hi Steffen Hi Dirk, [lots of agreement that would want to have more high quality R packages] > | > Btw, wouldn't you be interested to join our effort? I'd offer sponsoring > | > SHOGUN for Debian as a compensation :-) > |

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-21 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 02:10 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > On Saturday 18 August 2007 22:45:56 Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 14:44 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > > > On Saturday 18 August 2007 12:36:41 Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > [...] > > Well I don't know how much should be

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Soeren, Hi Steffen Now back from a short vacation in Michigan, I'll chime in on the ongoing discussion. On 18 August 2007 at 22:45, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: | On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 14:44 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: | > On Saturday 18 August 2007 12:36:41 Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: | > > On Tu

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-18 Thread Steffen Moeller
On Saturday 18 August 2007 22:45:56 Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 14:44 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > > On Saturday 18 August 2007 12:36:41 Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: [...] > Well I don't know how much should be split up. But I guess this depends > also on the number of debian re

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-18 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 14:44 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > On Saturday 18 August 2007 12:36:41 Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 21:26 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: [...] > > esoteric/brand new research/unstable R-packes. However I would want to > > see the more mature bioconduc

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-18 Thread Steffen Moeller
On Saturday 18 August 2007 12:36:41 Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 21:26 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > First of all I really like your efforts of debianizing R packages. I > think debian is currently well suited to be used in ``science'' but yes > there is a lot more one can d

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-18 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 21:26 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Hi Dirk, > UseR! 2007 at Iowa State University, Ames, IA, August 8-10, 2007 [...] > II. Paper / presentation on 2000 new Debian packages -- > "Would you like 2000 new Debian packages with that?" > ===