Re: [Rd] Support for noarch packages in /usr/share/R/library

2007-03-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
There is nothing in the R definition of a package to indicate if it is architecture-specific or not. Further, one version of a package might be, but an updated version might not (as has just happened with 'ifa'). Thus there are currently no 'noarch' R packages. [For those who miss the subtleti

Re: [Rd] Support for noarch packages in /usr/share/R/library

2007-03-13 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Tom, On 13 March 2007 at 15:05, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: | As originally raised here: | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231220 | | It has been proposed that R should support noarch packages | in /usr/share/R/library in addition to architecture specific packages | in /usr/l

[Rd] Support for noarch packages in /usr/share/R/library

2007-03-13 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
As originally raised here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231220 It has been proposed that R should support noarch packages in /usr/share/R/library in addition to architecture specific packages in /usr/lib/R/library or /usr/lib64/R/library. For example, the mAr addon doesn't