Re: packaging R-INLA

[oliver <metreo@sent.com>]

On 2021-01-15 9:59 a.m., Joan Albert wrote:
> Hi Magnus,
>
> > I am a sysadmin at the University of Edinburgh. We are in the process
> > of switching to Ubuntu for our managed Linux desktops.
>
> Great news! :)
>   
> > One of the packages I need to deal with is R-INLA [1] which is not
> > available on CRAN. I am happy to package it but what should the correct
> > name for the package be since it is not on cran. Just r-inla?
>
> For what I've seen (I have to admit that I am not an Debian neither R
> package developer, but would like to become one), all cran packages
> have names of the form r-cran-{package-name}. r-cran-inla would be my
> suggestion then.
>
> You can take a look at them at Debian website[1].
>
> [1] https://packages.debian.org/stable/gnu-r/
>
> Regards,
> --
> TS
Is the package not on CRAN because it doesn't want to deal with the 
administration or for other reasons?

Tagging with `r-cran` might imply criteria [0] the project may or may 
not conform with.

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