On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 13:35 -0500, Max Kuhn wrote: > Before I try to write any code, does anyone see any issues with this > (or has it already been done)? Is this a ridiculous approach?
You are for sure not alone in this effort to package R. A number of RPMs have already made their way into Fedora and tools have been developed to help this process. One of them is R2spec [1], which I have worked on. I would also point you to a 'fork' of R2spec [2] which aims at building RPM more than spec (reason why they did not merge). R2spec aims a helping to generate spec files as close as possible to the final one for inclusion in official Fedora/EPEL repositories. Allen S. Rout have made a nice job converting R2spec to generate RPM directly, solving some of the circular dependences issues. For the rest I believe Marc already point you to the right places. Best regards, Pierre [1] https://fedorahosted.org/r2spec [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-r-devel-list/2009-September/msg00023.html ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
