Max Pyziur wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/21/18 07:28, Max Pyziur wrote: >>> I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. >>> >>> I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater >>> support for R than Fedora (more R deb packages than R >>> rpm packages). >>> >>> Is there a rationale for this? I'd presume that it's mostly that less folks have contributed R-based packages to Fedora. The only way to change that is for more folks interested in R to maintain packages in Fedora. :) >> I don't use R or Ubuntu. But I wonder if counting the number of packages is actually >> reflective of the level of support. Is there a one-to-one correspondence between deb >> and rpm packages and the distributions? >> >> I count 140 rpm's (R-*) packages on Fedora. This excludes the devel packages. How >> many more does Ubuntu have and what functionality do they provide that is missing >> from Fedora? >> >> With that info, I would think one could write a BZ against R requesting the missing >> pieces. Probably would get a better, more definitive answer that way. I'm not an R user either, so I could be wildly wrong here. But I believe that most of the different packages are extensions/modules/additional data files rather than than missing pieces of the core R software. Similar to CPAN for Perl modules, R has CRAN for R packages. (That's probably nothing new to either of you, but might be useful to someone casually following this thread.) There are 12,173 packages listed at https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_name.html So I guess no distribution has much of it covered. ;) > I count about 435 on Ubuntu. To be fair, Ubuntu gets to build on top of the substantial work of Debian. For grins, I poked at the latest docker images from Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora and came up with these numbers: # debian (docker.io/debian:latest) $ apt-get update $ apt-cache pkgnames | grep -ciw r 292 # ubuntu (docker.io/ubuntu:latest) $ apt-get update $ apt-cache pkgnames | grep -ciw r 365 # fedora (registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:rawhide) # (There are 42 '-devel' packages and 4 matches which are # not R packages.) $ dnf list available | grep -iw r | grep -cv -- -devel 167 # Non-R packages: fonts-KOI8-R.noarch fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi.noarch fonts-KOI8-R-75dpi.noarch perl-Tree-R.noarch There's an R SIG for Fedora, which looks like it's been quiet since October. Perhaps some folks interested in R packaging would be welcome there? https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora -- Todd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. -- Aldous Huxley
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