Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said | |On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 14:11, Globe Trotter wrote: |> On another note, I wonder why this is not included in Fedora. SuSE |includes it, |> perhaps because they are European. | | |...Part of the issue is |the large number of "add-on" packages for R, that are not only on CRAN, |but on BioConductor and other R related repositories. Trying to |standardize the various components across multiple locations and for |multiple versions of RH/FC is a substantial undertaking at this point. The fedora rpm provided at the CRAN site contains very few add-on packages, and is still very use-able. Even just the base & ctest packages would provide a large amount of functionality. Users can easily install.packages() on top of this more stuff from CRAN. I always seem to end up installing a few packages eg. lineno, or numline) to RH/Fedora TeTeX installations... I can't see why any heavy thought has to go into what more or less ought to go into an R package than is already in the CRAN packages. -P. -- Peter L. Hurd Department of Psychology Assistant Professor University of Alberta Ph 780.492-3578, Fax 780.492-1768 Edmonton, Alberta http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~phurd T6G 2E9 Canada
