[R] Where has the Debian respository gone?

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Mon Nov 15 04:12:34 CET 2004


On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 07:35:27PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:53:42PM +0100, Christoph Bier wrote:
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > Did I miss something or is it just a temporary problem? Where has
> > the Debian respository
> > 
> > http://cran.r-project.org woody/main Packages
> > resp.
> > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/
> > 
> > gone? I tried it for about the last 7 hours.
> [...]
> 
> It has been turned off by the CRAN masters as the content had slipped
> further and further behind the Debian content.  
> 
> Current R and CRAN packages are on the Debian archives; you can install
> these on testing too.  To the best of my knowledge, there are no backports
> of current R and Debian CRAN packages to Debian stable. 

Upon re-reading this, I should clarify that in this context "CRAN packages"
refers to the several dozen CRAN packages that are in Debian; the list is
growing but still far from exhaustive.

Dirk

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