Gábor Csárdi

That's a lazy evaluation mishap, use ```r pkgs

Unfortunately the parsing in cli is kind of ad-hoc currently, and pretty hard to improve without losing compatibility. Nevertheless I am planning on improving it the next time I work...

Especially on macOS where we do not have RSPM.

So the advantage over https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/ubuntu/c2d4u would be more/better testing? Don't we already have that in the official CRAN repo?

Good points. I guess it is not too difficult to do it for the majority of the packages. Then we'll see if it is worth doing it for the ones...

@cboettig Well, that is a good question. I think proper deb/rpm/etc packages is one option, and just plain binary R packages (i.e. a tgz/zip of the installed package) is another...

@eddelbuettel What I meant, the options are 1. A proper Debian repo from which you can install with `apt-get`. 2. A proper CRAN-like repo from which you can install with...

@eddelbuettel Sure, that's advantage of 1). But 1). needs root access and 2) does not. That's advantage 2). You are right that 2) might lead to non-loading packages. But you...

> Right now it is simply my quest to convince @gaborcsardi that his GitHub mirror is a match made in heaven for gitbuilder :) Hah! You can convince me about...

> Btw. do you have a link about what gitbuilder actually does? Never mind, found it above.