R help - May 2008 - Announcement: support of littler, rkward and rpy on Debian/Ubuntu

Dear useRs,

This is to announce that the maintainers of the various distributions  
have decided to provide "experimental" up-to-date versions of the  
following R related packages on Debian stable and Ubuntu (i386 and  
amd64 architectures):

	littler
	rkward
	python-rpy    (not on Ubuntu Dapper)
	python-rpy-doc (not on Ubuntu Dapper)

By "experimental" we mostly mean that support for these packages may  
remain somewhat of a moving target for some time. The maintainers are  
not necessarily users of these packages themselves, so positive and  
negative feedback through the usual channels (see below) would be  
appreciated.

See the Debian and Ubuntu README files on CRAN for more details:

	http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/
	http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/

This message is CCd to r-help to reach as wide an audience as  
possible, but we remind that the best place to report problems with  
these packages or to ask R questions specific to Debian and Ubuntu is  
the R-SIG-Debian mailing list. See

	https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian

for more information.

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   Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor
   ?cole d'actuariat
   Universit? Laval, Qu?bec
   Vincent.Goulet at act.ulaval.ca   http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca