Template for building .deb packages for missing libraries?

Greeting R debianites -

There are a number of R libraries I need debianized (for Ubuntu Maverick
systems, if it matters) -- ISwR, Hmisc, mosaic, mosaicManip, HSAUR2 --
which I couldn't find debian packages for.

The structure of R libraries is so regular that I'm guessing surely
there must be a template for creating debian packages for them, or maybe
a set of instructions?

Does anyone have such a thing?

Patrick,

I would suggest the Ubuntu Packaging Guide 
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete) as a starting place, 
at the same time using one of the .deb packages found on CRAN as a guide 
to see what Dirk and I (mainly Dirk) add to the source file to create 
the package.  In fact, the first time I built a package from the .tar.gz 
file, I used a lot of the same files from an already existing .deb file.

Hmisc is available on c2d4u 
(https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/c2d4u) for Natty and Oneiric, 
but not for Maverick, the others you mention are not.

Hope this helps,
Michael

Dr. Michael A. Rutter
School of Science
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Station Road
Erie, PA 16563
http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter