I seem to make R packages fairly often, which generally are mostly boilerplate with much of the information coming from a well-known source: the CRAN DESCRIPTION file. To ease the burden I have created a package (currently named pkgtools/R2pkg) that basically downloads the DESCRIPTION file, parses it, and constructs a skeleton package much as url2pkg does. The core of the package is a simple shell script that runs R for parts of the task. The man page is attached. Before committing this to pkgsrc, I would appreciate design (or other constructive) comments. My hope is that this will encourage others to make R packages so a greater fraction of CRAN will eventually be covered. Even though R has its own internal packaging system, I find it useful to deploy everything via a single interface, i.e., pkgsrc. Thanks for your input. Cheers, Brook
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