When I set up my debian linux (unstable) system, the only R debian packages were on CRAN, so I followed directions and added the last line to my /etc/apt/sources.list euclid: # m /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://hexamon.ccs.yorku.ca/ unixteam-debs/ deb http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian woody main But now, when I try to update the local package cache I get errors (below). Should I just delete the cran.r-project.org line above, or are there debian R packages elsewhere on CRAN that I should include instead? # apt-get update Hit http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/main Packages Hit http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/main Release Hit http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/non-free Packages Hit http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/non-free Release Hit http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/contrib Packages Hit http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/contrib Release Hit http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/non-US/main Packages Hit http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/non-US/main Release Hit http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/non-US/contrib Packages Hit http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/non-US/contrib Release Hit http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/non-US/non-free Packages Hit http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/non-US/non-free Release Hit http://hexamon.ccs.yorku.ca unixteam-debs/ Packages Ign http://hexamon.ccs.yorku.ca unixteam-debs/ Release Err http://cran.r-project.org woody/main Packages 404 Not Found Ign http://cran.r-project.org woody/main Release Failed to fetch http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found Reading Package Lists... Done E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. -- Michael Friendly Email: friendly at yorku.ca Professor, Psychology Dept. York University Voice: 416 736-5115 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814 4700 Keele Street http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/friendly.html Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA
I think the debian packages are now maintened in the official debian repository. http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=r-cran&searchon=names&subword=1&version=unstable&release=all http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=r-base&searchon=names&subword=1&version=unstable&release=all So you don't need a specific entry in your source.list anymore. -- Julien Damon <julien.damon at free.fr> http://julien.damon.free.fr
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 01:39:23PM -0500, Michael Friendly wrote:> Should I just delete the cran.r-project.org line > above,I think so. Plus, if you already point to Debian unstable, CRAN has nothing you wouldn't have otherwise.> or are there debian R packages elsewhere on CRAN that I should > include instead?Not that I know of. In the past, CRAN had current Debian packages of R itself for Debian flavours other than unstable which typically has the most current R version right at release time. However, migration to testing can take time so the we sometime kept the same . And for stable we used to have volunteer-donated rebuilds of the current R. This has gotten progressively more difficult as Debian stable got older and older, and process of creating the R packages started to take advantage of facilities to available to the versions of the tools in stable. We have talked at times about providing more CRAN packages as Debian packages, and possibly via CRAN itself rather than full Debian uploads. But I have not had time to work on that for a while, and that is unfortunately rather unlikely to change soon. Others have expressed an interest in helping as well but haven't gotten very far, unfortunately. Fellow Debian maintainer Matt Hope, has started a project on Debian's alioth host (that is open to non-Debianers who want to contribute) to coordinate debianisation of BioConductor. As this would use the same infrastructures, it could get used for CRAN too. But this project is also slow in progressing -- we're all overworked volunteers in this. Right now I'd say this is waiting for someone with a real itch to scratch. Regards, Dirk -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise answer to the wrong question. -- John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:00:53PM +0100, Julien Damon wrote:> I think the debian packages are now maintened in the official debian > repository.Yes, as they have been since December 1997. Dirk -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise answer to the wrong question. -- John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers