Pierre-Yves pingou@pingoured.fr writes on R-devel:
One of them is R2spec [1], which I have worked on. I would also point you to a 'fork' of R2spec [2] which aims at building RPM more than spec (reason why they did not merge). R2spec aims a helping to generate spec files as close as possible to the final one for inclusion in official Fedora/EPEL repositories. Allen S. Rout have made a nice job converting R2spec to generate RPM directly, solving some of the circular dependences issues.
I appreciate your kind mention of my effort, Pierre-Yves. Thank you!
I am dissapointed that you don't see a merge in the future. I would like to change that if I can. What would you like me to change?
It is my hope that the R2spec code will make it possible, eventually, to build and maintain _all_ the CRAN packages as RPMs, without the extensive by-hand treatment they now get. I understand that, if this is to happen, more folks than just me need to be happy with the code. :)
- Allen S. Rout