Rmetrics 191.10057

On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 11:07:09AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

In the meantime, you can fetch sources and i386 Debian packages manually
(sorry, no apt-get support here) from

	http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rmetrics/

Has anyone tried making the Debian packages for the powerpc
architecture?

It'll happen automatically once the packages 'are in'. So for real proof you
may need to wait those few days.

Note that I am not asking that somebody compile them for me, I am only
interested in whether they build.  I am considering buying a powerbook
and running debian on it, and it this doesn't work, it would seriously
discourage me.

I'm pretty sure they'll work as the actual arch-dependent code is in 'only'
a few isolated Fortran or C files to do very specific tasks.  R itself is
pretty good about being portable.  Check for example the buildd on some
other CRAN packages such as VR or Hmisc 

	http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=vr	       
	http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=hmisc	       

These packages typically fail only when something is (temporarily) wrong
with the toolchain on that arch.

Dirk

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