Latest revision as of 19:47, 15 September 2009

Update to the R Guidelines

Additional links

Current:

Proposed Change:

New Sections

Everything below this text is proposed as new sections for the R Guidelines

R version

Many R packages contain '-' in their version. Usually, the versioning used is a sequence of at least two (and usually three) non-negative integers separated by single '.' or '-' characters.

To be consistent with the versioning system used in Fedora, you should simply replace dashes with dots.

Example:

Upstream tarball: Rfoo-0.5-8.tar.gz
Fedora Version: 0.5.8

R documentation

R documentation is written in Tex files. rpmlint sometimes complains that these Tex files are not utf-8 files, but the encoding is normally specified in the file when needed, so this error is safe to ignore (and you should not try to re-encode the files).

R headers

R packages usually expect to find their header files in %{_libdir}/R/library/*/. rpmlint will complain that these files are misplaced, but this is safe to ignore.

You should still separate these header files into a -devel subpackage.

R2spec

R2spec is an excellent little tool to assist in creating Fedora-compliant packages for R libraries. Using it as a starting point is recommended (but certainly not mandated). More information here : https://fedorahosted.org/r2spec/

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- - At the beginning
+= Update to the R Guidelines =
+== Additional links ==
+Current:
 * [http://www.bioconductor.org/ The bioconductor website]
 * [http://cran.r-project.org/ The CRAN website]
-becomes:
+Proposed Change:
 * [http://www.bioconductor.org/ The bioconductor website]
 * [http://cran.r-project.org/ The CRAN website]
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 * [http://www.rforge.net/ The RForge website]
- - After Naming of R packages
-=== R version ===
-In R the package can contains '-' in their version.
-"The version is a sequence of at least two (and usually three)
+== New Sections ==
-non-negative integers separated by single ‘.’ or ‘-’ characters. The
+Everything below this text is proposed as new sections for the R Guidelines
-canonical form is as shown in the example [0.5-1 - Martyn], and a
-version such as ‘0.01’ or ‘0.01.0’ will be handled as if it were
-‘0.1-0’."
-To be consistent with the versioning system in Fedora you should just replace dashes with dots.
+=== R version ===
+Many R packages contain '-' in their version. Usually, the versioning used is a sequence of at least two (and usually three) non-negative integers separated by single '.' or '-' characters.
-source: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-r-devel-list/2009-June/msg00002.html
+To be consistent with the versioning system used in Fedora, you should simply replace dashes with dots.
- - In the tips
+Example:
+<pre>
+Upstream tarball: Rfoo-0.5-8.tar.gz
+Fedora Version: 0.5.8
+</pre>
 === R documentation ===
-R documentation is written in Tex files.
+R documentation is written in Tex files. rpmlint sometimes complains that these Tex files are not utf-8 files, but the encoding is normally specified in the file when needed, so this error is safe to ignore (and you should not try to re-encode the files).
-rpmlint can complain about non utf-8 files but the encoding is normally specified in the file when needed, so you should not change the encoding
-source: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00741.html
 === R headers ===
-Some library have to be splitted in a main package and a sub -devel package.
+R packages usually expect to find their header files in %{_libdir}/R/library/*/. rpmlint will complain that these files are misplaced, but this is safe to ignore.
-While doing so rpmlint might complain about miss placed file and ask to move the file from %{_libdir} to %{_datadir}.
-However doing this break the libraries using these file since the file are not where R expect them to be.
-Therefore you can leave -devel in %{_libdir} in such case.
+You should still separate these header files into a -devel subpackage.
-source: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-r-devel-list/2009-March/msg00001.html
+=== R2spec ===
+R2spec is an excellent little tool to assist in creating Fedora-compliant packages for R libraries. Using it as a starting point is recommended (but certainly not mandated).
+More information here : https://fedorahosted.org/r2spec/
- - At the end
+[[Category:Archived packaging guideline drafts]]
-=== R2spec ===
-R2spec is an excellent little tool to assist in creating Fedora-compliant packages for R libraries. Its use as a starting point is recommended (but certainly not mandated).
-More information on : https://fedorahosted.org/r2spec/

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