Not much reason to have */R-cran-* ports

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> R packages are only useful in the 
> context of R, as building blocks of larger R programs only runnable in R 
> environment. R packages are much more dependent on environment.

How does R handle dependencies on non-system libraries,
like an exotic graphics lib ?

Does R internally replicate all this build/dependency-tracking
that ports (or other systems' package managers) provide ?

Other systems (like debian etc) also have large collections
of R-related packages, because of the dependency tracking problem.

apt-cache search "^r-.*" | wc -l

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