Re: What's the difference between CRAN Cairo and cairoDevice
Hi Andreas,
[ Lucky I found this -- procmail sticks this into the debian-science folder
which I do not visit as often as my normal inbox ... ]
On 18 August 2016 at 08:52, Andreas Tille wrote:
| Hi Dirk,
|
| I've got a request to install Cairo[1] which from the description sounds
| pretty similar to your package r-cran-cairodevice from[2]. Both R
| packages seem to be maintained. Could you explain the difference and
| do you think its sensible to package Cairo in addition?
Yes, see
https://cloud.r-project.org/package=Cairo
https://cloud.r-project.org/package=cairoDevice
These are simply two similar and somewhat overlapping packages.
CRAN is not unlike Debian in that such feature overlap is not policed against
(and that is a good thing). As I recall, Cairo is newer.
I once needed cairoDevice so I packaged it -- if you now have a rev.dep on
Cairo you will have to package that.
Dirk
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