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Re: categories for R packages



On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Brook Milligan wrote:
- Other language-specific packages (e.g., perl and python) have packages 
scattered across categories so why should not R packages be organized along 
category lines?
 + Pros: consistency with pkgsrc organization generally
 + Cons: implementing this consistently requires moving existing R packages to 
new categories

There's enough prior art there to put the R packages where their functionality lies, i.e. don't keep them in 'math'.


 - Hubert


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