Packaging shiny-server (Was: Bug#886815: ITP: r-cran-git2r -- GNU R access to Git repositories)

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Philip,

[ moving the discussion to Debian Science list[1] ;-) ]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:17:05PM +0100, Philip Rinn wrote:
> if you need help packaging all the stuff for Shiny-server, I'm happy to assist. 
> Do you have written down somewhere what's left to do?

Some local manual installation of shiny-server installs the following not
yet packaged R packages:

   r-cran-broom
   r-cran-bubbles
   r-cran-dbplyr
   r-cran-ggvis
   r-cran-highcharter
   r-cran-leaflet
   r-cran-mclust
   r-cran-psych
   r-cran-rlist
   r-cran-shinysignals
   r-cran-shinythemes
   r-cran-wordcloud
   r-cran-rmarkdown

This list possibly needs to be worked down.  I had an *old*,
*non-working* packaging attempt on my local disk.  I now imported the
latest upstream of shiny-server into this Git repository, did **not**
yet any test build yet (so expect that the build will fail!) and
commited it to

   https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/shiny-server.git

Feel free to commit any changes you consider an enhancement!  I would
work down the list or r-cran-* packages step by step and than see how
complicated the actual shiny-server packaging is.  I vaguely remember
the nodejs stuff was quite complex - specifically for me since I have no
idea about all this nodejs / JS stuff at all.

Kind regards and thanks for your attempt to help

        Andreas.


[1] https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/dont-ask-your-questions-in-private

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