[pkg-bioc] Re: [R-sig-Debian] "Debain" way of installing packages

[Egon Willighagen]

On Monday 25 April 2005 03:07 pm, elijah wright wrote:
> > access to maintainers) and (non-backuped) disk space. Since we mirror
> > everything, this should not be too much of an issue, is it? I might have
> > to pay for a disk myself, but this is fine. We could do both i386 and
> > sparc. Also MIPS, but this is a bit pointless for now, isn't it?
>
> how much disk space would such a project need?  ballpark estimate?  tens
> or low hundreds of gigabytes?

The sources (tar.gz) for CRAN are about 160MB... The debs will be around the 
same size? Multiply this by three or four... So, <1GB would be my guess...

Egon