[rkward-devel] check for debian packages

[meik michalke]

hi,

i'm currently trying to implement automatic debian package creation as an 
additional feature of roxyPackage[*]. more importantly, there's already 
services like cran2deb or c2d4u (for ubuntu):
 o http://debian.cran.r-project.org                  (currently down?)
 o https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/c2d4u

these services provide debian packages for most of the R packages available 
from CRAN. i think it would be great if RKWard was able to prefer available 
debian packages over R source packages, when it's running on a debian based 
system. this would spare me the manual checks i'm doing from time to time (i 
prefer to leave as much as possible to the debian package management).

not sure if this could be implemented as a plugin, or if it would make more 
sense to first come up with an R package for this (with an extended 
install.packages() that also checks debian package archives?). i'm just 
throwing this in here, maybe you have some comments ;-)


viele grüße :: m.eik


[*]: it actually works already, it's just not tested very much:
 o http://reaktanz.de/?c=hacking&s=roxyPackage
-- 
dipl. psych. meik michalke
institut f"ur experimentelle psychologie
abt. f"ur diagnostik und differentielle psychologie
heinrich-heine-universit"at d-40204 d"usseldorf
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