Re: rgdal?

[Johan Van de Wauw <johan.vandewauw@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini@faunalia.it> wrote:
> Il 21/05/2015 15:25, Johan Van de Wauw ha scritto:
>> It should be easy to package, for OSGeo live we use a package created
>> by cran2deb.
>>
>> IMHO The major reason that it is not packaged is that R has a
>> convenient packaging system itself.  For most modules I don't think
>> packaging as a deb is that useful. I don't really see the point in
>> getting updates to my R packages through my operating system.
>
> Hi,
> you are certainly right - in the past, however, I got troubles when
> upgrading R, having libraries in forder which are different from what R
> from deb expects. Tha'ts why I always prefer a packaged solution.
> All the best.

RGDAL is probably one of the R packages where a debian package is
actulally useful, since it does not only contain scripts but it has to
be compiled.

Anyone considering packaging this could definitely start from the
package in osgeo live:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/206067892/rgdal_0.9-2-1cran2ppa0.diff.gz