PS That said, we seem to have all of these
Suggests: aplpack, boot, colorspace, e1071, foreign, grid, Hmisc, knitr, lattice, leaps, lmtest, markdown, MASS, mgcv, multcomp (>= 0.991-2), nlme, nnet, nortest, readxl, rgl (>= 0.110.2), rmarkdown (>= 0.9.5), sem (>= 2.1-1) so I could make them 'Recommends:' in the Debian parlance. You could then tell apt and other Debian package front-ends to (re-)install r-cran-rcmdr with all its recommended packages. Cheers, Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org