1.2.3 debian version

"Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd at debian.org> writes:

I'm wondering why there isn't yet the debian version of R 1.2.3. Am I 
missing something?

The Debian maintainer (Hi Doug) hasn't gotten around to packaging it. But
as he righly pointed out to me in private, 1.2.3 hasn't changed that much 
from 1.2.2 on architectures other than the Mac. 

Note also that you can always build your own .deb from the tarball(s) on the
CRAN sites which is particularly helpful if you want to try the pre-releases.
I am running pre1.3.0 on one of my machines. Mail me if you need a hand
rolling your own .deb.

That being said, it would be nice if the apt-get'able archive was populated with
a new released version.   Maybe someone else at U Wisc could roll that? 

I will get a Debian 1.2.3 package out this weekend.  I am behind
schedule on that because I just finished final exam grading and am now
attending a conference here on Frontiers in Genetics.

By the way, Terry Speed of Univ of California - Berkeley spoke at the
genetics conference yesterday (he was the third speaker in a session
in which the first two were a Nobel Laureate and a member of the
National Academy of Sciences, which is pretty good company) and gave R
a very good plug.  He explained how they had used R in all their
statistical analyses of microarray data and showed the different
analytic techniques they have developed.  His group contributed the
sma package to CRAN.

I spoke with him after his talk and suggested that we may want to
create an R Special Interest Group on "genetics" or "bioinformatics" or
"microarray data", whichever buzzword seems appropriate.
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