[R] How to search for packages

[hadley wickham]

On Feb 4, 2008 12:17 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 4 February 2008 at 10:03, hadley wickham wrote:
> | Before Christmas I started working on a solution for this -
> | http://crantastic.org - a site for searching, reviewing and tagging R
> | packages.  Unfortunately I've run out of steam lately (and the lack of
> | a 64-bit ubuntu package for R means it's a bit out of date), but the
>
> Err, that got fixed early (or mid-) January. See
>    http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
> and/or the README therein:
>
>    UBUNTU PACKAGES FOR R
>
>    R packages for Ubuntu on i386 and amd64 are available. The plans are to
>    support at least the latest two Ubuntu releases and the latest LTS
>    release. As of January 2008, these are Gutsy Gibbon (7.10), Feisty Fawn
>    (7.04) and Dapper Drake (6.06), respectively.
>
> Kudos goes to Vincent and Michael for their work on Ubuntu packages based on
> our Debian packages.
>
> Maybe that can help crantastic get back on track. If on the other hand the
> dreadful winter sapped your energy, well then I'm out of options for help. :)

Ooops, I must have missed that.  I'll try again later today.

Hadley


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