Ubuntu Lucid, R 2.14.2, and ggplot2
Yeah, it seems like maybe the cran2deb stuff is not quite ready for prime time? It's a shame because we are making .deb packages for everything we develop internally, and I'd like to be able to indicate where R or some subset of it is a dependency.
On Mar 22, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
Hi Scott, I like apt-get and dpkg. They made administering my Debian box much more convenient. However, I was surprised some time ago to see that Debian's package management technology was failing to keep up with new releases of R packages. It seemed to me that R's packages were evolving faster than Debian's archives were updated. I had to used R's built in package management tool. If I recall correctly, it's named something like update_package() or update_packages() and it downloads new R code from CRAN. If you haven't already considered R's built in package management, you may want to try it. I hope that helps, Kingsley