Re: [PATCH] Add GenomicRanges.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> here’s a first batch of packages imported from Bioconductor.  This patch
> set adds the GenomicRanges package along with its dependencies.  They
> are all very simple.
>
> Only XVector has a separate build phase to avoid a dependency on
> zlibbioc, which is a version of zlib that’s frozen in time and only
> provided for systems that don’t have a working version of zlib.

OK.

> +    (properties
> +     `((upstream-name . "BiocGenerics")
> +       (r-repository . bioconductor)))

Neat.

> +    (build-system r-build-system)
> +    (home-page "http://bioconductor.org/packages/BiocGenerics";)
> +    (synopsis "S4 generic functions for Bioconductor")
> +    (description
> +     "This package provides S4 generic functions needed by many Bioconductor
> +packages.")

Maybe a word about S4 in the description, unless this is an obvious
thing in R land?

Otherwise this all looks good!

Ludo’.