R-devel going away

[Pierre-Yves]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:55:08AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
>> * It is causing no end of user complaints. The typical R user expects to
>> be able to do a "CPAN" (really, I should say "CRAN") style package
>> install through the R interface:
>> install.packages("RSQLite")
>> This doesn't work unless you have R-devel installed. The average R user
>> is a professor or a student, and neither of them are going to
>> necessarily possess the necessary Linux/Fedora knowledge to be able to
>> understand why this doesn't work like the R documentation says it
>> should. 
> 
> Where do R packages installed this way go? I'd rather have people say "hey,
> we're missing an R package" and then have that packaged up for Fedora, so we
> can then later do a consistant install via kickstart. (Like perl modules,
> they're generally relatively easy to package.)
> 
Would the lake of packager be a suffisant answer ?

FYI:
http://rpms.famillecollet.com/rpmphp/rpm.php?type=R

Regards,

Pierre