Re: packaging R-INLA
On 15 January 2021 at 12:56, Magnus HAGDORN wrote:
| I am a sysadmin at the University of Edinburgh. We are in the process
| of switching to Ubuntu for our managed Linux desktops. As part of this
| effort we will need to package software that is currently not available
| on Debian/Ubuntu.
|
| 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?
We generally use 'other' in that case to follow the three-component model we
have converged on. The initial unpublished draft proposed
'r-other-$AUTHOR-$PACKAGE' for these cases but we later dropped the author
component.
Dirk
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