[Fedora-r-devel-list] useR! 2008

[Pierre-Yves]

José Matos wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I am writing this from Dortmund, at the useR! 2008 conference
> http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/useR-2008/

Nice :)
> 
> 	I will have a talk tomorrow about the interaction between R and Fedora. It is 
> a 15 minutes session so there is not much time to expand. I will present 
> Fedora and it interacts with R. There are several issues that are common to 
> the relation between Fedora and languages like perl, python, latex or R.

That's great :) Do you have the slides of the presentation ? I would be 
interested to know how you presented things.
> 
> 	I will also take the opportunity to hear feedback from several types of users 
> regarding the state of R in Fedora. If there is anything relevant I will 
> report back to this list.

I would like to know how the think on the difference between suggests 
and depends dependences of a library. (I still have in my mind the 
Bioconductor issue).
Do they install both ?
Do they care about the suggests ?
Do they want them ?

> 
> 	I have asked pingou (I hope I can use this) to write to the list with the new 
> releases of his package as it would be nice that package automatically in 
> Fedora using yum.

I have asked for a project on the fedorahosted.org, I'll let you know.

Thanks,
Regards,
Pierre