[rkward-devel] check for debian packages

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi,

On Sunday 15 April 2012, meik michalke wrote:
> 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 ;-)

hm, good question.

I guess there are number of reasons for implementing this in an R package, 
first, then extending RKWard to make use of that package, later. The best 
reason is that quite conceivably the cran2deb / r-sig-debian people may be 
interested in helping with creating and/or maintaining this.

One issue that comes to my mind is access rights. While install.packages() 
will install to a local library by default, for debian packages you'd need 
admin rights. To make this a smooth user experience, it should be possible to 
acquire admin rights, interactively. Here it would be important for us to have 
a parameter to specify a graphical, rather than console based su-command (i.e. 
kdesu / kdesudo instead of su / sudo).

Regards
Thomas
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