[Pkg-grass-general] Re: Bug#308533: ITP: gstat -- A program for multivariable geostatistical modelling, prediction and simulation
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 08:55:28PM +0000, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie <at> debian.org> writes:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie <at> debian.org>
> >
> > * Package name : gstat
> > Version : 2.4.4
> > Upstream Author : Edzer J. Pebesma <e.pebesma <at> geog.uu.nl> et al.
> > * URL : http://www.gstat.org/
> > * License : GPL
> > Description : A program for multivariable geostatistical modelling,
> prediction and simulation
> >
> > Gstat is an open source (GPL) computer code for multivariable
> > geostatistical modelling, prediction and simulation, and has been around
> > from 1997. In the original form, gstat is a stand-alone executable,
> > interfaced to various GIS (including GRASS 6).
> > As of 2003, the gstat functionaly is also available as an S extension,
> > either as R package or S-Plus library.
>
> Do you intend to package this as r-cran-gstat, in-line with the numerous other
> R packages based on CRAN sources?
>
Ah, nice point. Yes the package set is not yet ready now, I'd like
packaging all needed bindings, so thank you for your suggestion...
> I'm just asking as gstat is also part of CRAN, e.g. can be found on
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ and its mirrros. We have a
> never-quite-finalized Debian R Policy draft that several of us adhere
> to, and that we plan to expand -- i.e. we're working on getting all of
> CRAN auto-built (and apt-get'able, though not necessarily inside Debian
> as adding 500+ packages may be madness).
>
> Feel free to follow-up off-line if you have questions.
>
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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