On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:34:41PM +0000, Tony Travis wrote:
If you want me to name some important Bioconductor packages I use
then I suggest "simpleaffy" and its dependencies:
http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.6/bioc/html/simpleaffy.html
Out of curiosity, I hacked a script (quick and dirty) that gathers
dependancy information from the Packages file of Steffen's cran2deb
repository[1] and draws a dependency graph that can be processed
with dot. An example output is attached.[2] It also gives some stats
on stderr about how many packages depend on a package. Dunno whether
or not this is useful, though.
Dashed entries are BioConductor packages, solid ones are from CRAN.
From the later, only r-cran-rsqlite is not yet in Debian. In order
to package r-bioc-simpleaffy, one CRAN package and 11 BioConductor
packages need to be packaged. One could start from the source
packages created by cran2deb. I'm not a user of BioConductor myself
but if there are a few people willing to work on that, I'd volunteer
to help with reviews and uploads. The packages should be beginner
friendly, so maybe someone would like to pick those up?!