Re: [PATCH]: Five R packages.

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

Hi Kyle,

> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:
>
>> From 9b319907000ad6b1796d1887cabcf010aa806d3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 16:59:08 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/5] gnu: Add r-data-table.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/statistics.scm (r-data-table): New variable.
>
> It seems data.table was already packaged under a different name in
> 0e4e03f (2015-09-26).

You are right!  I should update “r-data.table” because the license
seems to be GPL3+ not GPL2+.  

>> From 0e6557d12cba8e25aad9789b3fb4c454ce16c244 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 17:00:26 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH 5/5] gnu: Add r-lattice.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/statistics.scm (r-lattice): New variable.
>
> Isn't lattice already included with the main R build as a recommended
> package?

You’re right again.

Is there ever a reason to upgrade the included recommended packages?  I
know that when installing some bioconductor packages R asks whether to
upgrade some included packages, such as MASS.  I’m not sure if it makes
sense to offer separate packages for the latest versions of these
modules.

What do you think?  I’m not much of an R-user myself.

~~ Ricardo