[Fedora-r-devel-list] R RPM requirements

[Martyn Plummer]

One of the topics that came up during the thread "R-devel going away"
was that R-devel has a rather heavy set of requirements.   

Some of these looked implausible to me, even though I am probably
responsible for putting them in in the first place.  This prompted me to
go back to basics and work out what the requirements of R-core and
R-devel should really be.  I wrote a document in December, but never
circulated them for some reason. You can find it here (PDF document and
LaTeX source):

http://calvin.iarc.fr/~martyn/software/R

It may look like heavy going, but you can skip to the conclusions if you
get bored. The bottom line is that a lot of the current requirements of
R-devel can be dropped, but there are also a few other requirements that
should, in principle, be added.

If you do find it useful, it could go in a wiki so that it can be kept
up to date.  

Martyn




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