Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-survival.

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org> writes:

> Dear Guix,
>
> Here is another R package.
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Kind regards,
> Roel Janssen
>
>
>From c7da5f0f490d75fbf9697fc632fb0066dfefa89f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 13:28:53 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-survival.
>
> * gnu/packages/statistics.scm (r-survival): New variable.

If I’m not mistaken this package is also part of the default R
installation.

The same questions apply as those I wrote about MASS.

>  gnu/packages/statistics.scm | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
> index 7b34832..47311eb 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
> @@ -1331,6 +1331,25 @@ the versions that @code{r-release} and @code{r-oldrel} refer to, and also all
>  previous R versions and their release dates.")
>      (license license:expat)))
>  
> +(define-public r-survival
> +  (package
> +    (name "r-survival")
> +    (version "2.39-2")
> +    (source (origin
> +              (method url-fetch)
> +              (uri (cran-uri "survival" version))
> +              (sha256
> +               (base32
> +                "1n649k6arf751f3z6axm3w84ihydw8j9g4f1l8ifqfvcdkl40yz3"))))
> +    (build-system r-build-system)
> +    (home-page "http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/survival")
> +    (synopsis "This package does survival analysis")

How about “Routines and models for survival analysis”?

> +    (description "This package contains the core survival analysis routines,
> +including definition of Surv objects, Kaplan-Meier and Aalen-Johansen
> +(multi-state) curves, Cox models, and parametric accelerated failure time
> +models.")

“Surv” –> “@code{Surv}”?

> +  (license license:lgpl2.0+)))

Okay.  Thanks!

~~ Ricardo