[pkg-bioc] how to proceed?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 5 February 2005 at 21:00, elijah wright wrote:
| 
| > | >That may be the best we can do, but it is very scattershot.  Having 
| > all of | >CRAN in reach of apt-get would be nicer. | > | Some packages 
| > of CRAN seem a bit strange, like the source code of some | particular 
| > book and so on. Not too many would miss these, I think.
| >
| > Au contraire -- those are often examples from books and not all 
| > esoteric.
| 
| i have to agree with dirk, here - we have to support a lab with R on the 
| machines, and it turns out that the packages of "source code from books" 
| (especially MASS and VR) are quite necessary to have available.  :)

Unlucky example because these are of course in stock r-base, but:
-- I bought the Devore basic stats textbook /because/ Doug Bates produces one
   (by now two) excellent packages with the examples;
-- have used the example package for Dalgaard'd Intro R book (ISwR);
-- should have bought the book by John MacDonald (DAAG)

That's three from the top of my head ...  I know one package is for an
Italian R book; I'll pass on that.

Anyway, we were digressing.  How will we do some actual work?  Should we base
it as much R code as possible (I think that would work) or start with the
Perl hack?

Dirk

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