Why aren't R packages noarch?

[José Matos]

On Tuesday 06 March 2007 10:20:24 pm Patrice Dumas wrote:
> however some R packages are truely noarch. They should be below
> %_datadir. Is it possible?

  Without changing the R.spec that is not possible.

  Even more fundamental is the fact that R defines RHOME, R home directory. In 
a i686 this is
$ R RHOME
/usr/lib/R

and for a x86_64
$ R RHOME
/usr/lib64/R

  So this does not seem easy to achieve. :-(

> --
> Pat

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José Abílio