[Debian-med-packaging] Glasso, QUIC, and else

[Laszlo Kajan]

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Hello Andreas!

> On 17 December 2012 at 22:45, Laszlo Kajan wrote:
> | Dear Matyas!
> | 
> | > So I would bequite glad to be a maintainer for a regularized inverse covariance matrix math package. Btw, I am at a conference, and a new
> | > algorithm based on quic called ista was presented. So there is active interest.
> | > 
> | > I also wok for IBM. I asked fo clearance to contribute to debian. I did not get official response yet, but I expect it will be favourable.
> | 
> | This is great! Also thanks for the fast glasso implementation: I will check it out later this week.
> | 
> | I will ask around on Debian lists for R packaging. It would be best if we could find someone from a dedicated team to guide you. I know quite
> | well how to create Debian packages in general. But my experience shows that dedicated packaging groups (like Perl,  Python etc.) have great
> | specific knowledge. It would be best if we could tap into that.
> | 
> | Dear Dirk!
> | 
> | I am Laszlo Kajan from the Debian Med team. Matyas has R libraries that are interesting for me. He would like to contribute them to Debian. But
> | I myself have no R packaging experience.
> | 
> | * Is there an R packaging team? [1] does not mention one, and you are the maintainer of a great number of R packages [2].
> 
> No. The page at [1] is not an official Debian page anyway, that I just a
> loosely coordinated effort ot provide backports.
> 
> Regarding [2], some other folks now maintain packages too, including debian
> science or med --- search by r-cran-* and look at the different maintainers.
> 
> Lastly, see http://debian-r.debian.net --- an autobuilder of all (!!) CRAN
> packages. I had built an earlier version.
> 
> Manual package building is pretty easy and standardise. Just download 1, 2,
> 3, ... packages and look at debian/rules which is typically a one-liner.
> 
> Dirk
>  
> | * Could you guide Matyas package his R libraries? If you do not have much time, I can also act as his mentor. But it would be good if you could
> | have a look at what he/we do occasionally.
> | 
> | [1] http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/
> | [2] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=edd%40debian.org
> | 
> | Best regards,
> | 
> | Laszlo

* I would like to recommend Matyas as your student for Mentoring of the Month (MoM) for January! [0]

He is very motivated to learn about packaging for Debian, and has code relevant to bioinformatics (contact predictions: his code [1][2] can do
sparse matrix inversion, a key element of the newest contact predictors). We asked Dirk Eddelbuettel about his R packages, and he recommended
that Matyas does his work in e.g. the med team. It would be great if Matyas could learn the basics from you. Tomas is almost at the end of his
mentoring period, and Matyas is not entirely ready yet to begin, so I think January could work, if both of you like that.

[0] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM
[1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/QUIC/index.html
[2] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/sustik/glassofast/

Best regards,

Laszlo
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