[pkg-bioc] Re: Bioconductor Debian packages

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Faheem,

On 25 July 2005 at 19:24, Faheem Mitha wrote:
| 
| Hi Dirk,
| 
| It looks like there has been some activity on the Debian packages for 
| Bioconductor front. I see that there is an Alioth project up.

Yes, and you're cordially invited to join in! Alioth is open to all, just
register as, say, 'faheem-guest' (the -guest is mandatory for non-Debianers,
I'm afraid) and join in the fun.
| 
| I found http://wiki.debian.net/?AliothPkgBioc. Is this info up to date? 
| Care to comment how usable the packages at 
| http://bioinformatics.pzr.uni-rostock.de/~moeller/debian/ are?

Not sure, but I am sure Steffen will tell us.

| If these aren't suitable, would you suggest using the scripts from 
| bioconductor and compiling packages manually? I've been trying to do this, 
| but have been having all sorts of problems.

Worked for me for the last Quantian update in December. But that is of course
two R releases and one BioC release ago.

Cheers, Dirk

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