Bug#649538: ITP: r-cran-int64 -- R package providing 64-bit integers

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : r-cran-int64
  Version         : 1.0.0
  Upstream Author : Romain Francois
* URL or Web page : 
* License         : GPL (>= 2)
  Description     : R package providing 64-bit integers

This is a new package (sponsored by Google's Open Source Office). It extends
R to support int64 types (modeled after int64_t and uint64_t) which permits
indexed objects of much larger size than with R's standard 32-bit sized
integers.

We need the package in Debian as Rcpp (== r-cran-rcpp) will require it
(upstream) in order to provide int64 support for things like RProtoBuf.

Romain (who wrote int64) is also my co-author for Rcpp, our joint package for
R / C++ integration (and which I maintain in Debian too).

Dirk

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