[gentoo-soc] Automatically generated overlay of R packages - progress report #12

[gentoo-soc] Automatically generated overlay of R packages - progress report #12

[André Erdmann]

Hi everyone,

== Brief summary of this project ==

The aim of this project is to create scripts that automate the process
of overlay creation/maintenance for R packages from repositories such
as CRAN and Bioconductor.

Longer:
For the ebuild creation of a single package one needs to extract the
package, copy-paste data from its description file to the ebuild and
look up dependencies, which is time-consuming.
Although trivial for a few number of packages, this is practically
impossible to do by hand for repositories like CRAN (> 3500 packages),
especially 'cause it also requires tracking changes (new / updated /
removed packages).
The solution is to automate that process and this is what this project is about.

The project's git repository is located at
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/R_overlay.git


== Last week's progress ==

* some code fixes like creating a proper SRC_URI ebuild variable for
packages from subdirectories

* documentation: started to write the manual/usage guide (using
reStructuredText). It's not complete. but covers most production
usage-relevant sections. Its html version can be found here [0].

[0] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/R_overlay.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/html/usage.html;hb=HEAD


== Plans for this week ==

* Documentation isn't complete yet, so I'll continue with this task.

-- 
Regards,
André E.