[Fedora-r-devel-list] R2spec new release

[Dan Bolser]

2008/9/2 Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>:
> On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 18:12 +0100, Dan Bolser wrote:
>
>> Now is there any way to cross check these against what R actually has
>> installed? I am trying to think about ways that the R-installer could
>> be used in combination with the packages... or is the idea to package
>> the whole of CRAN? Where would such a repo be maintained? How would it
>> be kept in sync with CRAN?
>
> Well, I'm certainly not so bored as to want to repackage all of CRAN. :)
>
> I think the safest thing is to query R for what it has installed, and
> not be concerned about whether it was built manually from CRAN, or
> provided pre-built by Fedora.

OK, and then packages from Fedora with deps in CRAN that have been
locally built can be installed right? Can we set up the RPM so that it
can 'query R for what it has installed' for the purposes of resolving
such deps?

Is this what happens already?

>
> ~spot
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