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Biodem 0.1/orphaning of MAlmig

3 messages · Dirk Eddelbuettel, Federico Calboli

Federico Calboli
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Together with Alessio Boattini of the University of Bologna we have
created a package called Biodem. Biodem provides a number of functions
for Biodemographycal analysis, and we hope it will be useful to the
anthropological community.

Because Biodem contains all the functions found in Malmig (a package I
maintain), I would like to orphan it, or, even better, have it removed
from CRAN.

Finally, Biodem has been build on a Debian Linux box and is therefore
not yet available for Windows/OS X; Biodem was built with R 2.0.1
because I am using Debian 'testing' and the new R 2.1.0 is not yet
available for 'testing'. I will upload Biodem 0.2 as soon as I can build
it with R 2.1.

Regards,

Federico Calboli
Dirk Eddelbuettel
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On 24 April 2005 at 15:14, Federico Calboli wrote:
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| Finally, Biodem has been build on a Debian Linux box and is therefore
| not yet available for Windows/OS X; Biodem was built with R 2.0.1
| because I am using Debian 'testing' and the new R 2.1.0 is not yet
| available for 'testing'. I will upload Biodem 0.2 as soon as I can build
| it with R 2.1.

Actually, most of the time the dependency structure between Debian unstable
and testing is such that the packages from unstable can be installed
"straight through" into testing. Look at the apt-get HOWTO for the details on
pinning which allows you to selectively pull in some package via the comfort
of apt-get.

Debian packages of R 2.1.0 do work on testing; my machines fetched the
uploaded packages directly from my local build repository.  Since then,
however, unstable got a new libc and four Debian package of CRAN packages
(Design, Hmisc, tseries and a Debian update to VR) to not yet fit onto
testing for that reason.

Hope this helps,  Dirk
Federico Calboli
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On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 12:55 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
I am aware I could pin R, but I am quite conservative on that respect
and I have always preferred waiting a bit more than mixing my
distributions. I doubt it will be more than a few days (and besides, I
would be surprised of any difference in the tarball built by R 2.0.1 and
2.1.0).

Regards,

Federico Calboli