Why aren't R packages noarch?

[José Matos]

On Tuesday 06 March 2007 5:57:03 pm Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Other that installing in /usr/lib/R on i386 and /usr/lib64/R on x86_64,
> there appears to be no difference between an R package on the two
> architectures.  It seems to me that they should be made noarch and put
> into /usr/share/R instead.
>
> Comments?  Note that I am completely new to R....

  As Patrice said R packages are in the same boat as perl or python packages.

$ rpm -ql R-wavethresh | grep so
/usr/lib/R/library/wavethresh/libs/wavethresh.so

  In my book this does not seem like a noarch file. ;-)

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