Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hello everybody! Currently postgresql-plr is built as part of the postgresql source package. But we want to split off ancillary packages like this one because of big architectural changes that will be made in the postgresql package and because no maintainer actually uses plr. It has no open bugs. But it currently does not build separate from the postgresql source tree, its Makefile needs some adaptions to build standalone (most values can be hardcoded, maybe some cut & paste from the postgresql Makefiles are necessary). It also needs a helper program pg_regress, but we can include that in postgresql-dev if that helps. If somebody actually uses R with postgresql and is interested in it, then please contact us at pkg-postgresql-public@lists.alioth.debian.org (I set reply-to to this address), at d-devel or by writing a bug followup. The package description is: R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, providing a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques (linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification, clustering, and so on). . PostgreSQL is the foremost open source SQL database server . This package provides a procedural language interface to R from PostgreSQL. Procedural languages are used to write functions which can be called in database queries. (This description should be tweaked IMHO: reformulate the 2nd paragraph and make it the first, swap the first and third paragraph and so on). Thanks in advance and have a nice day! Martin (PostgreSQL comaintainer) p. p. Oliver Elphick -- Martin Pitt Debian GNU/Linux Developer martin@piware.de mpitt@debian.org http://www.piware.de http://www.debian.org
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