R SIG Debian - Jan 2006 - New Debian packages using /usr/share/R as well as /usr/lib/R

R always had all its files below /usr/lib/R, which isn't perfectly in line
with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). We did get some bug reports on
this, and I tried to argue for a while that this was consistent upstream
behaviour etc pp I would expect the issue to come back again.

Brian Ripley had made some changes to R a few months ago which allow to split
doc/, include/ and share/ off into /usr/share/R.  The set of R 2.2.1-3
packages now available at
	http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/debian/
uses this. Ans while "It works for me" so far, I would appreciate
additional
testing.  

Thanks, Dirk

-- 
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. 
                                                  -- Thomas A. Edison

I should know this but ...

Is it possible to add some version of the URL you give below to
/etc/apt/sources.list so that I can use

wajig build r-base-core

to download and build the new package?

On 1/16/06, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:
>
> R always had all its files below /usr/lib/R, which isn't perfectly in
line
> with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). We did get some bug reports
on
> this, and I tried to argue for a while that this was consistent upstream
> behaviour etc pp I would expect the issue to come back again.
>
> Brian Ripley had made some changes to R a few months ago which allow to
split
> doc/, include/ and share/ off into /usr/share/R.  The set of R 2.2.1-3
> packages now available at
>         http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/debian/
> uses this. Ans while "It works for me" so far, I would appreciate
additional
> testing.
>
> Thanks, Dirk
>
> --
> Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
>                                                   -- Thomas A. Edison
>
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On 16 January 2006 at 19:09, Markus Jantti wrote:
| Hi -- 
| 
| thanks for the good work. Am happy to test.
| 
| Just downloaded and installed the files. It seems that (compared to
| previous releases) 
| 
| /etc/R/Renviron
| 
| lacks R_LIBS:
| 
| pallas:~# diff /etc/R/Renviron /etc/R/Renviron.dpkg-old
| 39a40,43
| > # edd Apr 2003  Allow local install in /usr/local, also add a
| directory for
| > #               Debian packaged CRAN packages, and finally the default
| dir
| > R_LIBS|
${R_LIBS-'/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:/usr/lib/R/site-library:/usr/lib/R/library'}
| >
| 
| (I delibarately let dpkg replace my old config files.)

Thanks for catching that!   I'll try to fix this, that was not intentional.

Dirk

-- 
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. 
                                                  -- Thomas A. Edison