[Quantian-general] Quantian Futures (was Re: R & Octave)

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> (resending as I had inadvertendly dropped the CC to the list --Dirk)

[snip]

> Wrong again. Octave is similar to Matlab.

[snip]

> R has 1000+ contributed packages (really: more than one-thousand) at
> CRAN. One of them is Ryacas, an interface to yacas (which IIRC is also in
> Quantian). See 
> 	http://code.google.com/p/ryacas/
> 	http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Ryacas/index.html


That does raise an interesting question. The Quantian list seems to have 
been rather quiet of late, and I'm wondering when a new release is 
likely. I must admit I haven't looked at the Debian repositories 
recently, but it seems to me that most of the software in Quantian 
0.7.9.2 has evolved markedly in the past two years, and is presumably 
still being tracked in Debian.

For example, the R project just released 2.6.2, Yacas is at 1.2.2 and 
Ryacas is at 0.2-7. Octave is at 3.0.0. How difficult would it be to do 
a hard disk install from 0.7.9.2 and then upgrade all of these?