[pkg-bioc] CVS %p

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Sat May 19 18:23:17 UTC 2007


On 19 May 2007 at 20:01, Steffen Moeller wrote:
| Maybe you can transfer some bits to the UseR paper. When is the respective 
| deadline? Do you have a particular emphasis in mind? 

Last Monday was the deadline for paper, but the organisers are friendly.
Worst case it'll be a poster...

| Have you commented on the reviewer's comments that you have already
| addressed? 

Not at all.  The nettab2007 is more Grid/VO/RDF/ARC/RTE... focussed, and I
can't say much about it. I plan the useR paper to be a bit more R/Debian
focussed: 'apt-get r-everything', giving the same binary downloads that
Windows has -- along with working dependencies, complete rollback and
uninstall etc pp.

| I had some skype exchage with David a few hours ago, who will also
| contribute  to the paper tomorrow.

Sounds good.

| The other issue is with how we present ourselves to the public now. We
| should have some nice web page, but is there somebody volunteering for it?
| Or should it just remain with the Wiki?

Fine by me until we really have an automated service that would call for more
visibility.

| In a vain attempt to install Axis under Tomcat I have apparently crashed my
| machine which I can only reboot on Monday. What comes to mind... does your
| heart very much hang on the .tex files that are distributed with the
| packages? I very much wished these would be left either in a documentation
| packages or ... for simplicity ... omitted rightaway. If you'd agree to
| start with the omission, should we add this to our cran2deb.pl or rather to
| your cdbs magic?

You mean for every CRAN/BioC package?  It so happens that there was just a
discussion about 'vignettes' on r-devel. I think the Sweave-style, R and
latex based documentation is here to stay.  We should include __where
feasible__ If it doubles the pbuilder time just for texlive, then don't. I
hate it now for R builds because it adds a lot of time. For my (inside
Debian) r-cran-*, no additional load is added -- so I am unsure why it
affects pkg-bioc. Don't we just call 'R CMD INSTALL -l ...' as well?

Dirk

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